1 Samuel 2:30-36

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

³⁰ Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me forever, but now the Lord declares: Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt.^{(A) 31} See, a time is coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your ancestor’s family.^{[a](B) 32} No one in your family shall ever live to old age.^{(C) 33} The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep out his^[b] eyes and grieve his^[c] heart; all the members of your household shall die by the sword.^{[d] 34} The fate of your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.^{(D) 35} I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed one forever.^{(E) 36} Everyone who is left in your family shall come and prostrate himself before him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, ‘Please put me in one of the priest’s places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.’ ”^(F)