1 Samuel 2
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New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Samuel 2:30-36

30Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, ‘1I 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 2those who honor Me I will honor, and those 3who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.

31Behold, 4the days are coming when I will break your 5strength and the 6strength of your father’s house so that there will not be an old man in your house.

32You will see 7the distress of My dwelling, in spite of all the good that 8I do for Israel; and an 9old man will not be in your house forever.

33Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar 10so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die 11in the prime of life.

34This will be 12the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: 13on the same day both of them will die.

35But 14I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and 15I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before 16My anointed always.

36Everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a 17piece of silver or a loaf of bread and say, “Please 18assign me to one of the priest’s offices so that I may eat a piece of bread.”’”

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Samuel 2:30 Ex 29:9; Num 25:13 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Samuel 2:30 Ps 50:23 ↩
  3. 3. 1 Samuel 2:30 Mal 2:9 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Samuel 2:31 1 Sam 4:11-18; 22:17-20 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Samuel 2:31 Or arm ↩
  6. 6. 1 Samuel 2:31 Or arm ↩
  7. 7. 1 Samuel 2:32 1 Kin 2:26, 27 ↩
  8. 8. 1 Samuel 2:32 Lit He does ↩
  9. 9. 1 Samuel 2:32 Zech 8:4 ↩
  10. 10. 1 Samuel 2:33 Lit to waste away your eyes and to grieve your soul ↩
  11. 11. 1 Samuel 2:33 Lit as men ↩
  12. 12. 1 Samuel 2:34 1 Sam 10:7-9; 1 Kin 13:3 ↩
  13. 13. 1 Samuel 2:34 1 Sam 4:11, 17 ↩
  14. 14. 1 Samuel 2:35 1 Sam 3:1; 7:9; 9:12, 13 ↩
  15. 15. 1 Samuel 2:35 1 Sam 8:3-5; 25:28; 2 Sam 7:11, 27; 1 Kin 11:38 ↩
  16. 16. 1 Samuel 2:35 1 Sam 10:9, 10; 12:3; 16:13 ↩
  17. 17. 1 Samuel 2:36 Or payment ↩
  18. 18. 1 Samuel 2:36 Lit attach ↩

Commentaries on 1 Samuel 2

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