1 Samuel 2:31-32

2:31 In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength ¹  and the strength ²  of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house! 2:32 You will see trouble in my dwelling place! ³  Israel will experience blessings, ⁴  but there will not be an old man in your ⁵  house for all time. ⁶ 

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¹ tn Heb “chop off your arm.” The arm here symbolizes strength and activity.

² tn Heb “arm.”

³ tn Heb “you will see [the] trouble of [the] dwelling place.” Since God’s dwelling place/sanctuary is in view, the pronoun is supplied in the translation (see v. 29).

⁴ tn Heb “in all which he does good with Israel.”

⁵ tc The LXX and a Qumran manuscript have the first person pronoun “my” here.

⁶ tn Heb “all the days.”