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33 Any of you whom I don’t eliminate from serving at my altar will grow tired from weeping,[a] and their[b] souls will grieve. All the increase of your family will die by violence.[c] 34 Here’s a sign for you—your two sons Hophni and Phineas will both die on the same day! 35 And I’ll raise up for myself a faithful[d] priest who will do according to what is in my heart and according to my desire. I’ll build for him an enduring[e] house and he will walk before my anointed one forever.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:33 The Heb. lacks from weeping
  2. 1 Samuel 2:33 Lit. your
  3. 1 Samuel 2:33 Lit. by the sword; so with LXX and DSS; MT die like men
  4. 1 Samuel 2:35 Or an enduring; MT word translated faithful here is translated enduring later in this verse.
  5. 1 Samuel 2:35 Or faithful; MT word translated enduring here is translated faithful earlier in this verse.