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34 The fate of your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.(A)

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34 “‘And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign(A) to you—they will both die(B) on the same day.(C)

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56 Yet they tested the Most High God
    and rebelled against him.
    They did not observe his decrees(A)
57 but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors;
    they twisted like a treacherous bow.(B)
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
    they moved him to jealousy with their idols.(C)
59 When God heard, he was full of wrath,
    and he utterly rejected Israel.
60 He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh,
    the tent where he dwelt among mortals,(D)
61 and delivered his power to captivity,
    his glory to the hand of the foe.(E)
62 He gave his people to the sword
    and vented his wrath on his heritage.(F)
63 Fire devoured their young men,
    and their young women had no marriage song.(G)
64 Their priests fell by the sword,
    and their widows made no lamentation.(H)

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56 But they put God to the test
    and rebelled against the Most High;
    they did not keep his statutes.
57 Like their ancestors(A) they were disloyal and faithless,
    as unreliable as a faulty bow.(B)
58 They angered him(C) with their high places;(D)
    they aroused his jealousy with their idols.(E)
59 When God heard(F) them, he was furious;(G)
    he rejected Israel(H) completely.
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,(I)
    the tent he had set up among humans.(J)
61 He sent the ark of his might(K) into captivity,(L)
    his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62 He gave his people over to the sword;(M)
    he was furious with his inheritance.(N)
63 Fire consumed(O) their young men,
    and their young women had no wedding songs;(P)
64 their priests were put to the sword,(Q)
    and their widows could not weep.

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