Look, days [are] coming when I will cut off your {strength} and the {strength} of the house of your ancestor {so that no one in your house will live to old age}.

You will see distress in the place of worship, in spite of all that is good in Israel, and no one in your family will ever again reach old age.

David was the son of that Ephrathite man named Jesse from Bethlehem in Judah. He had eight sons; at the time when Saul was king he was old, having lived to an advanced age.

In his old age Samuel appointed his sons as judges over Israel.