24 No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear that ye cause the people of the Lord to transgress.
25 If one man sins against another, the judges shall judge him, but if someone sins against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they did not hearken unto the voice of their father because the Lord had already decided to kill them.
26 And the child Samuel kept on growing and was in favour both with the Lord and also with men.
27 And a man of God came unto Eli and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Did I not plainly appear unto the house of thy father when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharaoh?
28 And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me, and I gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings on fire of the sons of Israel.
29 Why do ye trample my sacrifices and my offerings which I have commanded to be offered in my tabernacle and honor thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
30 Therefore, the Lord God of Israel said, I had said indeed that thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever, but now the Lord said, It shall never be; for those that honor me I will honor, and those that lightly esteem me shall be vile.