Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

Only men from the tribe of Levi and direct descendants of Aaron (Moses’ brother) were allowed to be priests and high priests. 

Numbers 18:1-24  – I Samuel 1:1-2  –   I Samuel 1:11  –  I Samuel 1:25-28  –  I Samuel 2:12 & 17  –  I Samuel 2: 22-26 & 35  –  I Samuel 3:10-11  –  I Samuel 3:19-21  –  I Samuel 7:9  –  I Samuel 13:8 – 13a  –  I Chronicles 6:1, 25-38

Fact of the Day 

Yes and No!  God made this law, he can change it, and  he did – once.  God made one exception to his Only-Levite and Only-Descendant-of-Aaron rule.  Once again, that exception was a little boy.   

When High Priest Eli, a descendant of Aaron, could not control his thieving and adulterous priestly sons, God decided to destroy Eli’s entire family and make Samuel the next High Priest.  But, how could that be?  Samuel’s father was from the tribe of Ephriam, not the tribe of Levi.  And he certainly was not a descendant of Aaron.

Apparently, when Samuel’s mother, Hannah, took little Samuel around age two to four to the tabernacle for Eli to raise, Eli adopted Samuel.  And the night that God spoke directly to boy Samuel from the angel-wings cover of the Ark of the Covenant, that was Samuel’s initiation directly by God.  

Samuel’s later descendants are listed in Chronicles as Levites.  God himself qualified Samuel to be high priest.  Oh, and that’s how Samuel’s grandson became that famous Levitical singer in the temple decades later we talked about a few days ago.

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