Prophets, Priests and Sacrifices

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presidente

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Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal to a sacrifice, to see which God answered by fire. He wasn't a priest. The Jerusalem temple had been established, and they weren't there. Yet he cut the animal, etc. there on Mt. Carmel. Was that in line with the Torah? He said he had done what he had done at God's word.

Did Samuel grow up eating the tabernacle shewbread? He was from the tribe of Dan.

Samuel had Saul wait for him to perform the sacrifice. Was this allowed because they site for the temple hadn't been built yet? When the tabernacle was at Shiloh for so long, would the people have thought that was the place the LORD their God had chosen?
 
Dino246

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Elijah's actions on Mt. Carmel were at the explicit direction of the Lord, not at the direction of the Torah.

I'm not sure where you get the idea that Samuel was of the tribe of Dan; 1 Samuel 1:1 says his father was an Ephraimite. Still not a Levite though.

Any answer to your third question would be speculative as the text doesn't say.
 
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Locoponydirtman

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When God gave the Israelites what they wanted, a king, He expressly forbid kings from performing the duties of a priest.
 
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presidente said:
Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal to a sacrifice, to see which God answered by fire. He wasn't a priest.
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Neither was his sacrifice meant to replace any temple sacrifice. And Samuel is presented as a prophet also.
 
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presidente

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Nehemiah6 said:
Neither was his sacrifice meant to replace any temple sacrifice. And Samuel is presented as a prophet also.
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The temple site hadn't been chosen in Samuel's day. But would Israel have realized that with Shiloh being where it was for centuries?

In Elijah's time, sacrifices were supposed to be made in the place the LORD your God would choose. The temple existed.
 
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