1 Samuel 2:31-36
English Standard Version
31 Behold, (A)the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house. 32 Then (B)in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, (C)and there shall not be an old man in your house forever. 33 The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his[a] eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants[b] of your house shall die by the sword of men.[c] 34 (D)And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die (E)on the same day. 35 (F)And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. (G)And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before (H)my anointed forever. 36 And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, “Please put me in one of the priests' places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”
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- 1 Samuel 2:33 Septuagint; Hebrew your; twice in this verse
- 1 Samuel 2:33 Hebrew increase
- 1 Samuel 2:33 Septuagint; Hebrew die as men
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