Teks -- 1 Samuel 2:31 (NET)

2:31 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!

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Wesley: 1Sa 2:31 - Arm

That is, I will take away thy strength, or all that in which thou placest thy confidence, either, the ark, which is called God's strength, Psa 78:61, and was Eli's strength, who therefore was not able to bear the very tidings of the loss of it. Or, his priestly dignity or employment, whence he had all his honour and substance. Or rather, his children, to whom the words following here, and in the succeeding verses, seem to confine it.

Wesley: 1Sa 2:31 - Father's house

That is, thy children's children, and all thy family which was in great measure accomplished, 1Sa 22:16, &c.

JFB: 1Sa 2:31 - I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house

By the withdrawal of the high priesthood from Eleazar, the elder of Aaron's two sons (after Nadab and Abihu were destroyed, [Num 3:4]), that dignity had been conferred on the family of Ithamar, to which Eli belonged, and now that his descendants had forfeited the honor, it was to be taken from them and restored to the elder branch.

Clarke: 1Sa 2:31 - I will cut off thine arm

I will cut off thine arm - I will destroy the strength, power, and influence of thy family.

TSK: 1Sa 2:31 - I will cut

I will cut : That is, I will destroy the strength, power, influence, and authority of thee and thy family; of which the arm of man being the instrument, is used as the emblem. 1Sa 4:2, 1Sa 4:11, 1Sa 4:17-20, 1Sa 14:3, 1Sa 22:17-20; 1Ki 2:26, 1Ki 2:27, 1Ki 2:35; Job 22:9; Psa 37:17; Eze 30:21-24, Eze 44:10

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Poole: 1Sa 2:31 - I will cut off thine arm // The arm of thy father’ s house // There shall not be an old man in thine house

I will cut off thine arm i.e. I will take away thy strength, which is oft signified by the arm, as Job 22:8 Psa 37:17 , or all that in which thou placest thy confidence and security; either,

1. The ark, which is called God’ s strength, Psa 78:61 , and was Eli’ s strength, who therefore was not able to beat the very tidings of the loss of it, 1Sa 4:18 . Or,

2. His priestly dignity or employment, whence he had all his honour and substance. Or rather,

3. His children, to whom the words following here, and in the succeeding verses, seem to confine it, who are the strength of parents: see Gen 49:3 Deu 21:17 Psa 127:4,5 .

The arm of thy father’ s house i.e. thy children’ s children, and all thy family; which was in great measure accomplished, 1Sa 22:16 , &c.

There shall not be an old man in thine house they shall generally be cut off by an untimely death before they be old.

Haydock: 1Sa 2:31 - Arm // Old man

Arm, strength or children. I will slay some; others I will reduce to extreme want. Some explain it of the ark, which was the protection of Israel. (Calmet) ---

Old man, to govern. (Du Hamel) ---

It is often a title of dignity. But the four succeeding pontiffs did not live long. In the course of little more than 100 years, the last was deposed. (Calmet)

Gill: 1Sa 2:31 - 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,.... Or, are coming ^g; and will quickly come, in a very little time the things, after threatened, began to take place, even in the days of Eli's sons, and the whole was accomplished in about eighty years after:

that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house: that is, the strength of him and them, as the Targum, the strength of a man for doing business lying in his arm; meaning by it not long life, as Kimchi, who concludes this sense from what follows; but rather power and authority, or the exercise of the office of high priest, which gave him and his family great esteem and power; or it may be best of all, his children, which are the strength of a man, and the support of his family, see Gen 49:3

that there shall not be an old man in thine house; as there were none when he died, and his two sons, the same day; and the children they left were very young, and Ahitub, who was one of them, could not die an old man, since Ahimelech his son was priest in the time of Saul, who with eighty five priests were slain by his order; and Abiathar his son was deprived of his priesthood in the time of Solomon; though some understand this not of an elder in years, but in office; and that the sense is, that there should be none of his family a senator, or a member of the great sanhedrim, or court of judicature; and so it is interpreted in the Talmud ^h; with which agree Ben Gersom and Abarbinel.