Arm — That is, I will take away thy strength, or all that in which thou placest thy confidence, either, the ark, which is called God's strength, Psalms 78:61, and was Eli's strength, who therefore was not able to bear the very tidings of the loss of it. Or, his priestly dignity or employment, whence he had all his honour and substance. Or rather, his children, to whom the words following here, and in the succeeding verses, seem to confine it. Father's house — That is, thy children's children, and all thy family which was in great measure accomplished, 1 Samuel 22:16, &c.
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1 Samuel 2:31
31 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.