1 Samuel 2:30-32

Contemporary English Version

³⁰I am the Lord, the God of Israel. I promised to always let your family serve me as priests, but now I tell you that I cannot do this any longer! I honor anyone who honors me, but I put a curse on anyone who hates me. ³¹The time will come when I will kill you and everyone else in your family. Not one of you will live to an old age.

³²Your family^[a] will have a lot of trouble. I will be kind to Israel,^[b] but everyone in your family will die young.

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Footnotes

2.32 Your family: Or “My house of worship.”
2.31,32 Not one … to Israel: The Standard Hebrew Text; the Dead Sea Scrolls and one ancient translation do not have these words.