1Samuel:2:27-36

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* And there came a man of God to Eli , and said to him , Thus says LORD , Did I reveal myself to the house of thy father when they were in Egypt [in bondage ] to Pharaoh 's house ? * And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest , to go up to my altar , to burn incense , to wear an ephod before me ? And did I give to the house of thy father all the offerings of the sons of Israel made by fire * Why do ye kick at my sacrifice and at my offering , which I have commanded in [my ] habitation , and honor thy sons above me , to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people ? * Therefore LORD , the God of Israel , says , I said indeed that thy house , and the house of thy father , should walk before me forever , but now LORD says , Be it far from me , for those who honor me I will honor , and those who despise me * Behold , the days come , that I will cut off thine arm , and the arm of thy father 's house , that there shall not be an old man in thy house . * And thou shall see an enemy [in my ] habitation , in all that I shall give Israel , and there shall not be an old man in thy house forever . * And the man of thine , [whom ] I shall not cut off from my altar , [shall be ] to consume thine eyes , and to grieve thy heart . And all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age . * And this shall be the sign to thee , that shall come upon thy two sons , on Hophni and Phinehas : In one day they shall die , both of them . * And I will raise up for me a faithful priest who shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind . And I will build for him a sure house , and he shall walk before my anointed forever . * And it shall come to pass , that everyone who is left in thy house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread , and shall say , Put me , I pray thee , into one of the priests ' offices that I may eat a morse

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