Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 2:4

4 The bowes of the msghty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girt with strength .

This notes, either 1. The strength of which they boasted, See Psal. 44. 6. and 46. 9. Or, 2. Their malicious or mischievous Designs. See Psal. 7. 12. and 11. 2. and 37, 14. Or, 3. Their virulent Tongues, which are compared to bowes that shoot their Arrows, even bitter Words; as it is said, Psal. 64. 3. Compare Ier. 9. 3. Or, 4. Their procreating Vertue, which may well be compared to a bow, both because it is called a Mans strength, Gen. 49. 3. And because Children which are the Effects of it, and are as it were shot from that bow, are compared to Arrows, Psal. 127. 4, 5. And this seems best to agree with the following Verse.

Or, were weak, or Feeble, in Body and Spirit, that had no strength to Conceive, which was once Sarah's case, Heb. 11. 11. Or, to bring forth, which was Israels condition under Hezekiah, 2 King. 19. 3.

Are enabled both to conceive and to bring forth, as the Church was, Isa. 66. 9.