In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength and the strength of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house!

日子必到，我要折断你的膀臂和你父家的膀臂，使你家中没有一个老年人。

看哪，日子将到，我要折断你的膀臂和你祖宗家的膀臂，使你家中没有一个老年人。

看哪，日子将到，我要折断你的膀臂和你祖宗家的膀臂，使你家中没有一个老年人。

看啊，时候将到，我要终结你和你家族的力量，你们家族必没有一个老人。

日子快到了，我要砍下你和你父亲的膀臂，使你家中再没有有权势的长者。

“看哪，日子将到，我必砍下你的膀臂和你父家的膀臂，使你家中没有一个老年人。

日子必到，我要折斷你的膀臂和你父家的膀臂，使你家中沒有一個老年人。

看哪，日子將到，我要折斷你的膀臂和你祖宗家的膀臂，使你家中沒有一個老年人。

看哪，日子將到，我要折斷你的膀臂和你祖宗家的膀臂，使你家中沒有一個老年人。

看啊，時候將到，我要終結你和你家族的力量，你們家族必沒有一個老人。

日子快到了，我要砍下你和你父親的膀臂，使你家中再沒有有權勢的長者。

你看吧，日子必到，我必把你的膀臂、和你父的家的膀臂砍下來，使你家中沒有一個老年人。

「看哪，日子將到，我必砍下你的膀臂和你父家的膀臂，使你家中沒有一個老年人。

其日將至、必斷爾臂、及爾祖家之臂、使爾家中無一耆老、

越至後日、我將絕爾及全家之力、使爾家中無一耆老。

日將至、我必折爾臂、與爾父家之臂、使爾家中無一老者、

The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age,

The time is coming when I will cut your life short. I will also cut short the lives of those in your family line of priests. No one in your family line will grow old.

Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

The time is coming when I will put an end to your family, so it will no longer serve as my priests. All the members of your family will die before their time. None will reach old age.

Look, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your forefather’s family, so that none in your family will reach old age.

Behold, the days are coming when I will eliminate your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

Behold, the days are coming that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.

“‘ Look, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your ancestral family, so that none in your family will reach old age.

Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.

Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.

Then the king said to the messengers who were stationed beside him,“ Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, for they too have sided with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm the priests of the LORD.Then the king said to Doeg,“ You turn and strike down the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.As for Nob, the city of the priests, he struck down with the sword men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep– all with the sword.But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped and fled to David. His name was Abiathar.

The Philistines arranged their forces to fight Israel. As the battle spread out, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men in the battle line in the field.

The ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were killed.On that day a Benjaminite ran from the battle lines and came to Shiloh. His clothes were torn and dirt was on his head.When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of the road, for he was very worried about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, the whole city cried out.When Eli heard the outcry, he said,“ What is this commotion?” The man quickly came and told Eli.Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes looked straight ahead; he was unable to see.The man said to Eli,“ I am the one who came from the battle lines! Just today I fled from the battle lines!” Eli asked,“ How did things go, my son?”The messenger replied,“ Israel has fled from the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!”When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward from his chair beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phineas, was pregnant and close to giving birth. When she heard that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she doubled over and gave birth. But her labor pains were too much for her.As she was dying, the women who were there with her said,“ Don’t be afraid! You have given birth to a son!” But she did not reply or pay any attention.

Now Ahijah was carrying an ephod. He was the son of Ahitub, who was the brother of Ichabod and a son of Phineas, son of Eli, the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. The army was unaware that Jonathan had left.

“ Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Look, it has not been bandaged for healing or set with a dressing so that it might become strong enough to grasp a sword.Therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says: Look, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm and the broken one, and I will make the sword drop from his hand.I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among foreign countries.I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon.

for evil men will lose their power, but the LORD sustains the godly.

The king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada to take his place at the head of the army, and the king appointed Zadok the priest to take Abiathar’s place.

you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

“‘ But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for their sin.

The king then told Abiathar the priest,“ Go back to your property in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign LORD before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.”Solomon dismissed Abiathar from his position as priest of the LORD, fulfilling the decree of judgment the LORD made in Shiloh against the family of Eli.