1 Samuel 2:30–36

³⁰Therefore the Lord God of Israel says: ^a‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the Lord says: ^b‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and ^cthose who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed. ³¹Behold, ^dthe days are coming that I will cut off your ²arm and the arm of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house. ³²And you will see an enemy in My dwelling place, despite all the good which God does for Israel. And there shall not be ^ean old man in your house forever. ³³But any of your men whom I do not cut off from My altar shall consume your eyes and grieve your heart. And all the descendants of your house shall die in the flower of their age. ³⁴Now this shall be ^fa sign to you that will come upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: ^gin one day they shall die, both of them. ³⁵Then ^hI will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in My heart and in My mind. ⁱI will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before ^jMy anointed forever. ^36kAnd it shall come to pass that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and say, “Please, ³put me in one of the priestly positions, that I may eat a piece of bread.” ’ ”