1 Samuel 2:28-30

Legacy Standard Bible

^28 (A)And did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My priests, to go up to My altar, to burn incense, to carry an ephod before Me; and did I not ^(B)give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel? ²⁹ Why do you ^(C)kick at My sacrifice and at My offering ^(D)which I have commanded in My ^(E)habitation, and ^(F)honor your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the ^[a]choicest of every offering of My people Israel?’ ³⁰ Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, declares, ‘^(G)I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever’; but now Yahweh declares, ‘Far be it from Me—for ^(H)those who honor Me I will honor, and those ^(I)who despise Me will be cursed.