1 Samuel 2:30-32
International Standard Version
30 “Therefore, the Lord God of Israel has declared, ‘I did, in fact, say[a] that your family and your ancestor’s family would walk before me forever,’ but now the Lord declares, ‘Far be it from me! The one who honors me I’ll honor, and the one who despises me is to be treated with contempt. 31 The time is coming when I’ll cut away[b] at your family[c] and your ancestor’s family[d] until there are no old men left in your family. 32 Distress will settle down to live in your household, and despite all the good that I do for Israel,[e] there will never be an old man in your family forever, and you will never again have an old man in my house.[f]
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- 1 Samuel 2:30 So MT LXX; 4QSama reads seek
- 1 Samuel 2:31 So MT; 4QSama LXX read away your strength and the strength of your father’s house
- 1 Samuel 2:31 Lit. arm
- 1 Samuel 2:31 Lit. arm
- 1 Samuel 2:32 Or you are to look with envy on all that happens good with Israel, and
- 1 Samuel 2:32 So 4QSama LXX; MT reads left in my dwelling. You will look in distress at all the prosperity given to Israel, while there never again will be an old man in your house
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