1 Samuel 2:31-36 ▼

31 Behold, the time is coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

32 You will look at the distress of My house (the tabernacle), in spite of all the good which God will do for Israel, and there will never again be an old man in your house.

33 Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar; your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul will grieve, and all those born in your house will die as men [in the prime of life].

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

35 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 a permanent and enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed forever.

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