1 Samuel 2:31 - Compare All Versions
1 Samuel 2:31 NIV (New International Version)
The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age
1 Samuel 2:31 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.
1 Samuel 2:31 NLT (New Living Translation)
The time is coming when I will put an end to your family, so it will no longer serve as my priests. All the members of your family will die before their time. None will reach old age.
1 Samuel 2:31 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
Look, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your forefather’s family, so that none in your family will reach old age.
1 Samuel 2:31 KJV (King James Version)
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.
1 Samuel 2:31 NKJV (New King James Version)
Behold, the days are coming that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.
1 Samuel 2:31-36 MSG (The Message)
“Be well warned: It won’t be long before I wipe out both your family and your future family. No one in your family will make it to old age! You’ll see good things that I’m doing in Israel, but you’ll see it and weep, for no one in your family will live to enjoy it. I will leave one person to serve at my Altar, but it will be a hard life, with many tears. Everyone else in your family will die before their time. What happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be the proof: Both will die the same day. Then I’ll establish for myself a true priest. He’ll do what I want him to do, be what I want him to be. I’ll make his position secure and he’ll do his work freely in the service of my anointed one. Survivors from your family will come to him begging for handouts, saying, ‘Please, give me some priest work, just enough to put some food on the table.’”
1 Samuel 2:31 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)
Behold, the days are coming when I will eliminate your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.
1 Samuel 2:31 AMP (Amplified Bible)
Behold, the time is coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.
1 Samuel 2:31 NET (New English Translation)
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!