1 Samuel 2:27-36

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27} Then ^(A)a man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘^(B)Did I not indeed reveal Myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house? ^{Tools
28} ^(C)Did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My priests, to go up to My altar, to burn incense, to carry an ephod before Me; and did I not ^(D)give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel? ^{Tools
29} Why do you ^(E)kick at My sacrifice and at My offering ^(F)which I have commanded in My ^(G)dwelling, and ^(H)honor your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the ^(a)choicest of every offering of My people Israel?’ ^{Tools
30} Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, ‘^(I)I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever’; but now the Lord declares, ‘Far be it from Me—for ^(J)those who honor Me I will honor, and those ^(K)who despise Me will be lightly esteemed. ^{Tools
31} Behold, ^(L)the days are coming when I will break your ^(b)strength and the ^(c)strength of your father’s house so that there will not be an old man in your house. ^{Tools
32} You will see ^(M)the distress of My dwelling, in spite of all the good that ^(d)I do for Israel; and an ^(N)old man will not be in your house forever. ^{Tools
33} Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar ^(e)so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die ^(f)in the prime of life. ^{Tools
34} This will be ^(O)the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: ^(P)on the same day both of them will die. ^{Tools
35} But ^(Q)I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and ^(R)I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before ^(S)My anointed always. ^{Tools
36} Everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a ^(g)piece of silver or a loaf of bread and say, “Please ^(h)assign me to one of the priest’s offices so that I may eat a piece of bread.”’”

Footnotes:

a. 1 Samuel 2:29: ['Or ', first]

b. 1 Samuel 2:31: ['Or ', arm]

c. 1 Samuel 2:31: ['Or ', arm]

d. 1 Samuel 2:32: ['Lit ', He does]

e. 1 Samuel 2:33: ['Lit ', to waste away your eyes and to grieve your soul]

f. 1 Samuel 2:33: ['Lit ', as men]

g. 1 Samuel 2:36: ['Or ', payment]

h. 1 Samuel 2:36: ['Lit ', attach]

Cross references:

A. 1 Samuel 2:27: Deuteronomy 33:1; Judges 13:6

B. 1 Samuel 2:27: Exodus 4:14-16; Exodus 12:1; Exodus 12:43

C. 1 Samuel 2:28: Exodus 28:1-4; Exodus 30:7; Exodus 30:8; Leviticus 8:7; Leviticus 8:8

D. 1 Samuel 2:28: Leviticus 7:35; Leviticus 7:36

E. 1 Samuel 2:29: 1 Samuel 2:13-17

F. 1 Samuel 2:29: Deuteronomy 12:5-9

G. 1 Samuel 2:29: Psalm 26:8

H. 1 Samuel 2:29: Matthew 10:37

I. 1 Samuel 2:30: Exodus 29:9; Numbers 25:13

J. 1 Samuel 2:30: Psalm 50:23

K. 1 Samuel 2:30: Malachi 2:9

L. 1 Samuel 2:31: 1 Samuel 4:11-18; 1 Samuel 22:17-20

N. 1 Samuel 2:32: Zechariah 8:4

O. 1 Samuel 2:34: 1 Samuel 10:7-9

P. 1 Samuel 2:34: 1 Samuel 4:11; 1 Samuel 4:17

Q. 1 Samuel 2:35: 1 Samuel 3:1; 1 Samuel 7:9; 1 Samuel 9:12; 1 Samuel 9:13

R. 1 Samuel 2:35: 1 Samuel 8:3-5; 1 Samuel 25:28; 2 Samuel 7:11; 2 Samuel 7:27

S. 1 Samuel 2:35: 1 Samuel 10:9; 1 Samuel 10:10; 1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 16:13