2:31 In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength 1 and the strength 2 of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house!
1 Samuel 14:28
14:28 Then someone from the army informed him, “Your father put the army under a strict oath 3 saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food today!’ That is why the army is tired.”
1 tnHeb “chop off your arm.” The arm here symbolizes strength and activity.
2 tnHeb “arm.”
3 tnHeb “your father surely put the army under an oath.” The infinitive absolute is used before the finite verb to emphasize the solemn nature of the oath.