1Samuel:2:20-34

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* And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife , and said , The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD . And they went unto their own home . * And the LORD visited Hannah , so that she conceived , and bare three sons and two daughters . And the child Samuel grew before the LORD . * Now Eli was very old , and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel Yisra #el #; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation mow #ed #. * And he said unto them , Why do ye such things ? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people . * Nay , my sons ; for it is no good report that I hear : ye make the LORDS people to transgress . * If one man sin against another , the judge shall judge him : but if a man sin against the LORD , who shall intreat for him ? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father , because the LORD would slay them . * And the child Samuel grew on , and was in favour both with the LORD , and also with men . * And there came a man of God unto Eli , and said unto him , Thus saith the LORD , Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father , when they were in Egypt in Pharaohs house ? * And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest , to offer upon mine altar , to burn incense , to wear an ephod before me ? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire ofthe children of Israel Yisra #el #? * Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering , which I have commanded in my habitation ma #own #; and honourest thy sons above me , to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people ? * Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith , I said indeed that thy house , and the house of thy father , should walk before me for ever : but now the LORD saith , Be it far from me ; for them that honour me I will honour , and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed . * Behold , the days come , that I will cut off thine arm , and the arm of thy fathers house , that there shall not be an old man in thine house . * And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation ma #own #, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel Yisra #el #: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever . * And the man of thine , whom I shall not cut off from mine altar , shall be to consume thine eyes , and to grieve thine heart : and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age . * And this shall be a sign unto thee , that shall come upon thy two sons , on Hophni and Phinehas ; in one day they shall die both of them .

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