1 Samuel 2:31-33

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³¹The time is coming when I will destroy all your descendants. No one in your family will live to be an old man. ³²Good things will happen to Israel, but you will see bad things happening at home.^[a] No one in your family will live to be an old man. ³³There is only one man I will save to serve as priest at my altar. He will live until his eyes wear out and his strength is gone. But all of your descendants will die by the sword.^[b]

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Footnotes

1 Samuel 2:32 but you … at home These words are not in the ancient Greek version or the Hebrew scrolls from Qumran.
1 Samuel 2:33 by the sword This is found in the ancient Greek version and a Hebrew scroll from Qumran. The standard Hebrew text has “like men.”