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1 Samuel 2:31-33
International Standard Version
1 Samuel 2:31-33
International Standard Version
31 The time is coming when I’ll cut away[a] at your family[b] and your ancestor’s family[c] 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,[d] there will never be an old man in your family forever, and you will never again have an old man in my house.[e] 33 Any of you whom I don’t eliminate from serving at my altar will grow tired from weeping,[f] and their[g] souls will grieve. All the increase of your family will die by violence.[h]
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- 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
- 1 Samuel 2:33 The Heb. lacks from weeping
- 1 Samuel 2:33 Lit. your
- 1 Samuel 2:33 Lit. by the sword; so with LXX and DSS; MT die like men
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