34" 'And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign to you-they will both die on the same day.


In Context

31 The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your family line

32 and you will see distress in my dwelling. Although good will be done to Israel, in your family line there will never be an old man.

33 Every one of you that I do not cut off from my altar will be spared only to blind your eyes with tears and to grieve your heart, and all your descendants will die in the prime of life.

34 " 'And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign to you-they will both die on the same day.

35 I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who will do according to what is in my heart and mind. I will firmly establish his house, and he will minister before my anointed one always.

36 Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a crust of bread and plead, "Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat." ' "

1st Samuel 2:34 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:34And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:34And this shall be a sign to thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees: In one day they shall both of them die.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:34And this shall be the sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:34And this shall be the sign to thee, which shall come upon thy two sons, upon Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die, both of them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:34And this shall be the sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:34And this shall be a sign to thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:34|'This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall both die.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:34and this is to thee the sign that cometh unto thy two sons, unto Hophni and Phinehas — in one day they die both of them;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:34And this shall be a sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.