1 Samuel 2:31
Lo! days are coming, when I will hew off thine arm, and the arm of the house of thy father,—that there shall be no elder in thy house;
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1 Samuel 4:2And the Philistines set themselves in array to meet Israel, and, when the battle spread, then was Israel smitten before the Philistines,—and there were slain of the army in the field about four thousand men.
1 Samuel 14:3and, Ahijah, son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, was priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod,—and, the people, knew not that Jonathan had departed.
1 Kings 2:26Also, unto Abiathar the priest, said the king—To Anathoth, get thee unto thine own fields, for, death-doomed, thou art,—but, this day, will I not put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of My Lord, Yahweh, before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
1 Kings 2:35And the king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada, in his stead, over the army,—and, Zadok the priest, did the king put in the stead of Abiathar.
Psalms 37:17For, the arms of the lawless, shall be broken, But Yahweh is upholding the righteous.
Ezekiel 44:10But as for the Levites. Who went far from me, when Israel went astray. Who went astray from me, after their manufactured gods, Therefore shall they bear their iniquity,
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 2:28-36
Eli and His House Threatened. ( b. c. 1128.) 27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord , Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house? 28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel? 29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine… Read the whole commentary →