1 Samuel 2:27-36

The Lord Rejects Eli's Household

27 And there came 1a man of God to Eli and said to him, "Thus the LORD has said, 2'Did I indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt subject to the house of Pharaoh?
28 3Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, 4to wear an ephod before me? 5I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.
29 Why then do you 6scorn[a] my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?'
30 Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: 7'I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,'8but now the LORD declares: 'Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
31 Behold, 9the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.
32 Then 10in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, 11and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.
33 The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his[b] eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants[c] of your house shall die by the sword of men.[d]
34 12And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die 13on the same day.
35 14And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. 15And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before 16my anointed forever.
36 And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, "Please put me in one of the priests' places, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"

Cross References 16

  • 1. 1 Kings 13:1
  • 2. [Ex. 3 - 12]
  • 3. Exodus 28:1; Numbers 18:1, 7
  • 4. [1 Samuel 14:3; 1 Samuel 22:18]
  • 5. Leviticus 2:3, 10; Leviticus 6:16; Leviticus 7:7, 8, 34; Leviticus 10:14, 15; Numbers 5:9, 10; See Numbers 18:8-19
  • 6. Deuteronomy 32:15
  • 7. Exodus 27:21; Exodus 29:9
  • 8. [Jeremiah 18:9, 10]
  • 9. 1 Kings 2:27; [1 Samuel 4:11, 18, 20; 1 Samuel 22:18, 19]
  • 10. 1 Samuel 4:11; [Judges 18:30]; See Psalms 78:59-64
  • 11. [Zechariah 8:4]
  • 12. 1 Kings 13:3
  • 13. 1 Samuel 4:11
  • 14. 1 Kings 2:35; 1 Chronicles 29:22
  • 15. 1 Samuel 25:28; 1 Kings 11:38; [2 Samuel 7:11, 27]
  • 16. 2 Samuel 22:51; Psalms 18:50; [Psalms 89:20]

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. Septuagint; Hebrew kick at
  • [b]. Septuagint; Hebrew your; twice in this verse
  • [c]. Hebrew increase
  • [d]. Septuagint; Hebrew die as men
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