1 Samuel 2
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1 Samuel 2:30-31

30“Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.’ But now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.

31The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age,

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