Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.I honestly don't know what to make of this verse. It sounds both hopeful and distressing at the same time. One the one hand, He starts out by saying that He will not destroy Eli's family. This in itself is encouraging, for they have definitely sinned terribly, and deserve punishment. But God will keep his promise to maintain their line, and so some will be spared.
However, the rest of the verse makes me wonder what that hope is going to look like, because the situation of what he isn't going to do is rather grim. Someone losing eyesight because of their crying, and the household members dying in their prime doesn't sound like a good future, so it's gratifying to know this isn't going to happen. But what will happen, instead?
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