1 Samuel 2:30-35

English Standard Version

³⁰Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ^(A)‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ ^(B)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 lightly esteemed. ³¹Behold, ^(C)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. ³²Then ^(D)in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, ^(E)and there shall not be an old man in your house forever. ³³The 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^(F)And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die ^(G)on the same day. ³⁵^(H)And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. ^(I)And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before ^(J)my anointed forever.