1 Samuel 2:27
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1 Sam 2:27
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Then a man of God came to Eli and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, `Did I {not} indeed reveal Myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt {in bondage} to Pharaoh's house?
1 Sam 2:28
1 Sam 2:29
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~`Why do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering which I have commanded {in My} dwelling, and honor your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the choicest of every offering of My people Israel?'
1 Sam 2:30
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~"Therefore the LORD God of Israel declares, `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 those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.
1 Sam 2:31
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~`Behold, the days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your father's house so that there will not be an old man in your house.
1 Sam 2:32
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~`You will see the distress of {My} dwelling, in {spite of} all the good that I do for Israel; and an old man will not be in your house forever.
1 Sam 2:33
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~`Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar so that your eyes will fail {from weeping} and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.
1 Sam 2:34
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~`This will be the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: on the same day both of them will die.
1 Sam 2:35
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~`But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed always.
1 Sam 2:36
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~`Everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and say, "Please assign me to one of the priest's offices so that I may eat a piece of bread.""'
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