1 Samuel 2:34

34 What happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be the proof: Both will die the same day.

1 Samuel 2:34 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 2:34

This shall be a sign unto thee
A confirming one, that all which had been now said would be fulfilled:

that shall come upon thy two sons, Hophni and Phinehas;
which Eli would live to see fulfilled on them; and when it was, he might be assured the rest would be most certainly accomplished, and it was this:

in one day they shall die both of them;
as they did in battle with the Philistines, ( 1 Samuel 4:11 ) .

1 Samuel 2:34 In-Context

32 You'll see good things that I'm doing in Israel, but you'll see it and weep, for no one in your family will live to enjoy it.

33 I will leave one person to serve at my altar, but it will be a hard life, with many tears. Everyone else in your family will die before their time.

34 What happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be the proof: Both will die the same day.

35 Then I'll establish for myself a true priest. He'll do what I want him to do, be what I want him to be. I'll make his position secure and he'll do his work freely in the service of my anointed one.

36 Survivors from your family will come to him begging for handouts, saying, 'Please, give me some priest work, just enough to put some food on the table.'" "Speak, God. I'm Ready to Listen"