1 Samuel 2:31
“Hence I beg you to offer a hand to our children lest we ourselves become liable for what is committed by them. Are you not aware of what happened to old Eli for not properly correcting his sons' shortcomings? I mean, when a disease requires surgery, it rapidly becomes incurable if the physician is bent on treating it…”
Source: Septuagint
31Behold, the days come when I will destroy thy seed and the seed of thy father’s house.
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29And wherefore hast thou looked upon mine incense offering and my meat offering with a shameless eye, and hast honored thy sons above me, so that they should bless themselves with the firstfruits of every sacrifice of Israel before me?
30Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel, I said, Thy house and the house of thy father shall pass before me forever: but now the Lord says, That be far from me; for I will only honor them that honor me, and he that sets me at nought shall be despised.
— 1 Samuel 2:31 —
32And thou shalt not have an old man in my house forever.
33And if I do not destroy a man of thine from my altar, it shall be that his eyes may fail and his soul may perish; and everyone that remains in thy house shall fall by the sword of men.