^{22 Ref} Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting.

^{23 Ref} He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

^{24 Ref} No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people to disobey.

^{25 Ref} If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.

^{26 Ref} The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.

^{27 Ref} There came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh's house?

^{28 Ref} and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

^{29 Ref} Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?

^{30 Ref} Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

^{31 Ref} Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house.

^{32 Ref} You shall see the affliction of [my] habitation, in all the wealth which [God] shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.

^{33 Ref} The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.

^{34 Ref} This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.

^{35 Ref} I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.

^{36 Ref} It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.