31 Look! Days are coming when I shall certainly chop off your arm and the arm of the house of your forefather, so that there will not come to be an old man in your house.+

34 And this is the sign for you that will come to your two sons, Hophʹni and Phinʹe·has:+ On one day both of them will die.+

17 So the news bearer answered and said: “Israel has fled before the Phi·lisʹtines, and there has also occurred a great defeat among the people;+ and also your own two sons have died—Hophʹni and Phinʹe·has+—and the very ark of the [true] God has been captured.”+

8 There is no man having power over the spirit* to restrain the spirit;+ neither is there any power of control in the day of death;+ nor is there any discharge in the war.+ And wickedness will provide no escape for those indulging in it.*+

13 But it will not turn out well at all with the wicked one,+ neither will he prolong his days that are like a shadow,+ because he is not in fear of God.+