1 Samuel 2:30
30Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: a‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ bbut now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.1 Samuel 15:28
28And Samuel said to him, c“The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.2 Samuel 7:15
15 dbut my steadfast love will not depart from him, eas I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.Psalms 109:8
8May his fdays be few;may ganother take his hoffice!
Ezekiel 44:12-16
12Because they ministered to them before their idols and became ia stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have jsworn concerning them, declares the Lord God, and they shall bear their punishment. 13They kshall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but lthey shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed. 14Yet I will appoint them to keep mcharge of the temple, nto do all its service and all that is to be done in it.Rules for Levitical Priests
15“But othe Levitical priests, pthe sons of Zadok, who kept qthe charge of my sanctuary rwhen the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me sto minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me tthe fat and the blood, declares the Lord God. 16They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach umy table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.Matthew 21:43
43Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God vwill be taken away from you and given to a people wproducing its fruits.Luke 16:3
3And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.
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