31
Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 31. Arm, strength or children. I will slay some; others I will reduce to extreme want. Some explain it of the ark, which was the protection of Israel. Calmet.—Old man, to govern. D.—It is often a title of dignity. But the four succeeding pontiffs did not live long. In the course of little more than 100 years, the last was deposed. Calmet.
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
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