This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.
      IV. He gives a good reason for this revocation, taken from a settled and standing rule of God's government, according to which all must expect to be dealt with (like that by which Cain was tried, Genesis 4:7): Those that honour me I will honour, and those that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.