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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

And he ordered his bodyguards,“ Kill these priests of the Lord, for they are allies and conspirators with David! They knew he was running away from me, but they didn’t tell me!” But Saul’s men refused to kill the Lord’s priests.Then the king said to Doeg,“ You do it.” So Doeg the Edomite turned on them and killed them that day, eighty five priests in all, still wearing their priestly garments.Then he went to Nob, the town of the priests, and killed the priests’ families— men and women, children and babies— and all the cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.Only Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, escaped and fled to David.

The Philistines attacked and defeated the army of Israel, killing 4,000 men.

The Ark of God was captured, and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were killed.A man from the tribe of Benjamin ran from the battlefield and arrived at Shiloh later that same day. He had torn his clothes and put dust on his head to show his grief.Eli was waiting beside the road to hear the news of the battle, for his heart trembled for the safety of the Ark of God. When the messenger arrived and told what had happened, an outcry resounded throughout the town.“ What is all the noise about?” Eli asked. The messenger rushed over to Eli,who was ninety eight years old and blind.He said to Eli,“ I have just come from the battlefield— I was there this very day.”“ What happened, my son?” Eli demanded.“ Israel has been defeated by the Philistines,” the messenger replied.“ The people have been slaughtered, and your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were also killed. And the Ark of God has been captured.”When the messenger mentioned what had happened to the Ark of God, Eli fell backward from his seat beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he was old and overweight. He had been Israel’s judge for forty years.Eli’s daughter in law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near her time of delivery. When she heard that the Ark of God had been captured and that her father in law and husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth.She died in childbirth, but before she passed away the midwives tried to encourage her.“ Don’t be afraid,” they said.“ You have a baby boy!” But she did not answer or pay attention to them.

Among Saul’s men was Ahijah the priest, who was wearing the ephod, the priestly vest. Ahijah was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord who had served at Shiloh. No one realized that Jonathan had left the Israelite camp.

“ Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. His arm has not been put in a cast so that it may heal. Neither has it been bound up with a splint to make it strong enough to hold a sword.Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am the enemy of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt! I will break both of his arms— the good arm along with the broken one— and I will make his sword clatter to the ground.I will scatter the Egyptians to many lands throughout the world.I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and put my sword in his hand. But I will break the arms of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he will lie there mortally wounded, groaning in pain.

For the strength of the wicked will be shattered, but the Lord takes care of the godly.

Then the king appointed Benaiah to command the army in place of Joab, and he installed Zadok the priest to take the place of Abiathar.

You must have sent widows away empty handed and crushed the hopes of orphans.

And the men of the tribe of Levi who abandoned me when Israel strayed away from me to worship idols must bear the consequences of their unfaithfulness.

Then the king said to Abiathar the priest,“ Go back to your home in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not kill you now, because you carried the Ark of the Sovereign Lord for David my father and you shared all his hardships.”So Solomon deposed Abiathar from his position as priest of the Lord, thereby fulfilling the prophecy the Lord had given at Shiloh concerning the descendants of Eli.