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34 This is the sign for you that will come regarding your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: they will both die on the same day! 35 But I will raise up for myself a reliable[a] priest; he will do just according to what is in my heart and in my soul. I will build for him a lasting[b] house and he will walk continually before my anointed one forever.[c] 36 All the remainder of your household will come to bow down before[d] him for a bit of silver or a loaf of bread and will say, “Please assign me to one of the priestly offices[e] so that I can eat a morsel of bread.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:35 Or “faithful”
  2. 1 Samuel 2:35 Hebrew “faithful” or “reliable”
  3. 1 Samuel 2:35 Literally “all the days”
  4. 1 Samuel 2:36 Literally “to”
  5. 1 Samuel 2:36 Literally “priesthoods”