Oops of the Day

Only priests from the tribe of Levi ever served as high priest.

I Samuel 1:1-2 – I Samuel 2:15 –  I Samuel 2:34-35 – I Samuel 3:19-21 – I Chronicles 6:1, 25-38

Fact Of the Day 

No! Even though Samuel was not a Levite, he served as high priest.  Samuel’s father was Elkhanah, an Ephriamite. But when High Priest Eli did not try to stop his priestly sons’ sins, God said he was going to choose the next high priest himself and it was not going to be by inheritance as before.  Samuel’s later descendants were identified as Levites.  Apparently, Levite High Priest, Eli, adopted Samuel at age 2-4 when his mother took him to the temple to live. God himself qualified Samuel to be high priest.