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1 Samuel 2:31-35
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31 See, a time is coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your ancestor’s family.[a](A) 32 No one in your family shall ever live to old age.(B) 33 The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep out his[b] eyes and grieve his[c] heart; all the members of your household shall die by the sword.[d] 34 The fate of your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.(C) 35 I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed one forever.(D)

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  1. 2.31–32 Q ms Gk: MT adds so that no one in your family will live to old age. Then in a distressed place you will look upon all the prosperity of Israel. No one
  2. 2.33 Q ms Gk: MT your
  3. 2.33 Q ms Gk: MT your
  4. 2.33 Q ms Gk: MT die like mortals
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