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29 »‘Why do you kick at my sacrifice and my offering, which I have commanded in my house? Do you honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
30 »Jehovah, the God of Israel says: ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me all the days of your life.’« Now Jehovah says: »Far be it from me. I will honor those who honor me. I will not regard those who think little of me.
31 »‘The days are coming when I will cut off your arm (reduce your strength) and the arm of your father’s house. No old man shall be in your house!
32 »‘You will see the enemy in my house even though God does good for Israel. There will not be an old man in your house forever.
33 »‘Yet I will keep one of your descendants alive. He will serve me as priest. But he will become blind and lose all hope. All your other descendants will die in the prime of life.
34 »‘Your two sons Hophni and Phinehas will both die on the same day. This will show you a sign that everything I have said will come true.
35 »‘I will choose a priest who will be faithful to me and do everything I desire him to do. I will give him descendants, who will always serve in the presence of my anointed ones forever.
36 »‘Your descendants who survive will have to go to that priest and ask him for money and food, and beg to be allowed to help the priests, in order to have something to eat.’«