29 So why don’t you respect the sacrifices and gifts? You honor your sons more than me. You grow fat on the best parts of the meat the Israelites bring to me.’
30 “So the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I promised that your family and your ancestor’s family would serve me always.’ But now the Lord says: ‘This must stop! I will honor those who honor me, but I will dishonor those who ignore me.
31 The time is coming when I will destroy the descendants of both you and your ancestors. No man will grow old in your family.
32 You will see trouble in my house. No matter what good things happen to Israel, there will never be an old man in your family.
33 I will not totally cut off your family from my altar. But your eyes will cry and your heart be sad, because all your descendants will die.
34 “ ‘I will give you a sign. Both your sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will die on the same day.
35 I will choose a loyal priest for myself who will listen to me and do what I want. I will make his family continue, and he will always serve before my appointed king.