And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel. Eli's family were not thrust out from the priesthood until the accession of Solomon, which he did not live to see. The margin of the English Bible has, 'And thou shalt see the affliction of the tabernacle, for all the wealth which God would give Israel.' Agreeably to which announcement Eli did see the tabernacle bereft of the ark, which was its glory, and captured by the Philistines (1 Samuel 4:4; 1 Samuel 4:11; 1 Samuel 4:22). [Gesenius takes maa`own (H4583) in the accusative; and the translation would then be, 'thou shalt see straitness (calamity) at home (i:e., in the land) in every respect in which God hath prospered Israel.'] The Septuagint omits this verse entirely.