1 Samuel 2:30–36

³⁰“Therefore, the Lord God of Israel declares: I certainly thought that your family and your father’s family would always live in my presence. 

“But now the Lord declares: I promise that I will honor those who honor me, and those who despise me will be considered insignificant. ³¹The time is coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your father’s house so that no one will grow old in your family. ³²You will see distress in my dwelling place. In spite of the good that I do for Israel, no one in your family will live to an old age. ³³Any man in your family whom I do not remove from my altar will have his eyes fail, and he^cwill be heartbroken. And all your descendants will die in the prime of life. ³⁴What is going to happen to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign to you: Both of them will die on the same day. ³⁵Then I will appoint a faithful priest to serve me. He will do everything I want him to do. I will give him faithful descendants, and he will always live as my anointed one. ³⁶Then anyone who is left from your household will bow down in front of him to get a coin or a loaf of bread and say, ‘Please appoint me to one of the priestly classes so that I may eat a piece of bread.’ ”