Eli’s Father’s House

We must now concentrate on the two terms "Eli's house", and "Eli's father's house" and determine the scope of the operation of divine wrath in the offspring of Ithamar in punishment of its sins. The distinction "Eli's house", and "Eli's father's house" is contained in the doleful message of the unnamed prophet to Eli, "Behold the days come that He -- the Lord -- will cut off thine arm and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house," I Sam. 2:31. Aaron had...