1 Samuel 2:34

34 'This will be 1the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: 2on the same day both of them will die.

1 Samuel 2:34 In-Context

32 'You will see the distress of My dwelling, in spite of all the good that I do for Israel; and an old man will not be in your house forever .
33 'Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.
34 'This will be the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: on the same day both of them will die.
35 'But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed always .
36 'Everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and say, "Please assign me to one of the priest's offices so that I may eat a piece of bread.""'

Cross References 2

  • 1. 1 Samuel 10:7-9; 1 Kings 13:3
  • 2. 1 Samuel 4:11, 17
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