1 Samuel 2:30

saith The Heb. word is one rarely used except of a solemn divine utterance, as in Genesis 22:16, and very commonly in the prophets.

I said indeed that thy house, and the house of the father, should walk before me for ever God had promised that the family of Aaron in all its branches should serve perpetually as priests in His presence (Exodus 29:9; Numbers 25:13): but now the decree must be reversed, for the faithlessness of Eli's sons had broken the covenant.