1 Samuel Chapter 3

The Chapter 3 Reading and Why Verse 1 of Chapter 4 Belongs Here

I'm sorry. I'm going to read chapter 3 and then I'm going to include verse 1 of chapter 4. You know the chapter and verse separations are not inspired. The separation part and the reason being is it actually fits better with chapter 3 than 4 and I'll explain why when we get to that point.

So let's read. Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli and the word from the Lord was rare in those days and visions were infrequent. And it happened at that time as Eli was lying down in his place now his eyesight had begun to grow dim and he could not see well and the lamp of God had not yet gone out.

And Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was that the Lord called Samuel and he said here I am. And he ran to Eli and said here I am for you. You called me but he said I did not call you lie down again.

So he went and he lay down. The Lord called yet again Samuel. So Samuel arose and he went to Eli and said here I am for you called me but he said I did not call you my son go lay down again now. Samuel did not yet know the Lord nor had the word of the Lord yet been revealed to him.

So the Lord called Samuel again for the third time and he arose and he went to Eli and said here I am for you called me. Then Eli discerned that the Lord was calling the boy and Eli said to Samuel go lay down and it shall be if he calls you that you say speak Lord or your servant is listening.

Samuel went and he lay down in his place. Then the Lord came and he stood and he called as at other times Samuel. Samuel and Samuel said speak to for your servant is listening. And the Lord said to Samuel behold I'm about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears and everyone who hears it will tingle.

In that day I will carry out against Eli and all that I have spoken concerning his house from beginning to end for I have told him that I am about to judge his house forever for the iniquity which I knew because of his sons had brought a curse on themselves and he did not rebuke them.

Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli. The iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever. So Samuel lay down until the morning and he opened the doors of the house of the Lord.

But Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli. And then Eli called Samuel and he said Samuel my son. And he said here I am. He said what is the word that the Lord has spoken to you. Please do not hide it from me.

May God do so to you more. Also if you hide anything from me all the words which he has spoke to you. So Samuel told him everything and he hid nothing from him and he said it is the Lord let him do what seems good to him.

The Samuel grew and the Lord was with him. But hang on back up. Thus Samuel grew and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fail. All Israel from Dan even to bear Sheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the Lord and the Lord appeared again at Shiloh because the Lord revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the Lord.

Thus the word of Samuel came to all of Israel. Now Israel went out to me. Oh and we'll stop there that add that first part of verse 1 because it doesn't fit with the narrative and we'll talk about that next week.

It just doesn't fit if you remember just real quick chapter 1 through 7 is the rise of Samuel but we're fixing to 4 through 6 will actually go from Samuel and we'll deal with the ark. But it's still the rise of Samuel.

So when you at the end of chapter 3 we don't hear anything about Samuel for these chapters right here. That's why it really is in an odd place for three chapters we're not gonna hear anything more about Samuel after we go through chapter 3 till we get to 7 so we see that Samuel was ministering before the Lord or before or with Eli.

The Word of the Lord, the Temple, and the Lamp of God

And it says that it was rare or infrequent in those days. I think some translations may say precious meaning that it was just it wasn't happening. God was not speaking to his people through prophets. The prophethood had not yet been fully established yet.

But he wasn't speaking. He wasn't giving visions to anyone. So when this happens this is a very unique thing that will take place when he begins to speak to Samuel. And it says in verse 2 that it happened at that time as Eli was lying down in his place.

Now his eyesight had begun to grow dim and he could not see. Well and it says that the amp the lamp of God had not yet gone out. My understanding of this would be the word they were lying out because it says they were lying in the the temple of the Lord.

And this is the second time the word temple is used. It's used early on with with Hannah when it says that she was in the temple of the Lord. Understand that the temple the word just means palace or dwelling place.

The temple has not yet been established that is established by Solomon. The word it is the word used for palace and dwelling place a call. But it's not Mishka which means tabernacle. So it just means that they were in the plate the dwelling place of God where the Ark was.

Okay and they were lying down there. And it says the lamp of God had not yet gone out. Anybody know what the lamp of what the the instruments or the the the what vessels were inside. This for the inner sanctuary the first sanctuary you may know.

Well you had that that's the you had. Let's say this was the tabernacle. You'd come through the door here. You'd have the showbread here. You'd have the altar of incense here. This has been a tabernacle not the temple.

Because there's something else comes here. You have the Ark here and then you had the menorah here. This is the lamp of the Lord. You're talking about that glowed from evening to morning. They would come in.

They would fill it up with fresh beaten olive oil and it would glow. It says it had. This had not yet gone out meaning it was not. It had not dawned yet. So when the dawn would come in the morning they would open up these we're going to talk about Samuel's role in all of this.

They these screens would have been over because there was doors here a curtain like so that would let the what the daylight in so that this didn't have to glow. Okay that's what was taking place. So in short it was still nighttime.

Okay. And it said that the Lord spoke to him or he called out to Samuel. He gets up. He goes to Eli. He says hey it ain't me come on. Does it three times. The third time he says he had discerned this is in verse 8 discerning that it was the Lord that was calling the boy.

Eli said to him go lie down and it shall be that if he calls you again that you say speak Lord for your servant is listening. So Samuel went. And lay down in his place. Now Samuel didn't understand who was calling him.

We all do agree with that. Right. Okay. When it says that Samuel had not yet known the Lord does this mean that Samuel did not believe in Yahweh. How would how would. How does some of.

Y 'all understand that yeah it's qualified but it says the Lord had not.

Yet been revealed to him. So did he was he carrying out the duties of this young Levitical quote priesthood. He was carrying out those duties but he had not yet. At that time the Lord had spoken to him and read special revelation to him.

Yet that had not taken place until now. Eli understands it but I wouldn't say going through the motions because he was being trained to do what his calling by the mosaic legislation. And we're going to get to that towards the end.

He was doing what he was called to do. And he was doing what his his mother had dedicated him to the service of the Lord to do. He did not yet had heard the voice of God spoken. I mean he thought it was Eli calling him.

I mean if you and I if I heard Tim call me and then I heard Andy call me. I would know the difference. I would know the difference. Well he didn't know because it has the voice of the Lord had not yet been revealed.

I thought about this and I was in Sunday school as a kid. I was reading through this months ago preparing what we were going to do. And I don't know if y 'all any of y 'all were in Sunday school as a kid you know they in the kids curriculum it says that Samuel did not yet know the voice of the Lord.

That's how it was translated in your in for the for the kids. And I go. Well yeah. No. I mean I understand what they're trying to say. He didn't. He did not know. But it says it's qualified that he the Lord had not yet been revealed to him by special revelation.

And that special revelation as we get the end is that he's gonna be a prophet. So he says listen to him. This is what imagine hearing the word from the Lord the first time. And this is what you hear verse 10.

Then the Lord came and stood and called as as other times. And he said Samuel. Samuel speak for your servant is listening. Samuel said behold I'm about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

In that day I will carry out against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house from beginning to end. You may remember what was said by the man of God last week. We don't even know who that dude was.

He shows up on the scene. He drops the hammer on Eli. Do. You may remember what was said about hot five Phineas. They're gonna die the same day. And and daddy too and daddy too. Well he didn't say the daddy too.

But the daddy will. We'll get to that he says I in that day I will carry out. We've spoken against Eli that I have spoken concerning his house from beginning to end. I'm verse 13 for I have told him what I was about to judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew because his sons brought a curse on themselves and he did not rebuke them.

Therefore I've sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever. Or in some translations may even say in this age or the age to come.

You understand what the condemnation that goes against Eli's sons is that there will never be forgiveness granted to them. So for someone that says that they don't believe in the limited atonement that's it.

When I was that first Baptist downtown having a conversation in the Sunday school class there was more than a Sunday school class. Be 80 people. And God says if you can show me one place in the Bible where God said he wasn't going to die for them or their son.

Their sins can't be forgiven. I'll believe it. That's the passage that I went to. I said you gonna believe that now. Oh you know it says right here. It's very clear their sins will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.

Their sins were unforgivable because of what they had done. And you know what were the sins that they had committed. Just a few. Yes sir front of the tabernacle. Yep. Well yeah. They dishonored the father and mother certainly did that.

They extorted the people for the for the offerings which made those people that were coming. However we see that whether it was the the priest that would come or whether it was the actual worshiper they despise the offering of the Lord because they know when they gave that whatever it was the meat that it was not going to be accepted before God because it wasn't done in the the the the manner away the ritualistic.

I know it kind of weird but the way that God prescribed to be done a certain way step by step for that it wasn't accepted and it said they despised it. So that was their sins. They extorted the people they they filled their own bellies and God said because of that I'm gonna I'm gonna not atone for their sins.

In verse 15 so Samuel lay down again to the morning. Then he opened the doors of the Lord. Remember what I said opening the doors because this would have burned out. This is going through the night. Okay this only glowed at night you can go to.

I think it's in hexes chapter 27. It talks about what's supposed to be done with the more menorah and how it was. But that's this would be the menorah how it's supposed to be lit supposed to glow from evening to morning.

They know what they're why evening to morning their daytime started in the evening. I mean their days didn't start like hours at 6 a .m. in the morning. Per se they're started when the Sun went down. That's when the next day started not like ours.

So this would have glowed through the night with fresh beaten olive oil glowing and those look at it fill the little bowls up and it would glow. And then come the morning time. This would go out or they wouldn't extinguish it.

They would open these up so that the sunlight remember this had to face east. So actually I should have turned it this way. This was supposed to face east because that's where the Sun would rise in the morning lighting up through the lighting up the inner sanctuary.

It says that when he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. But Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli. Eli called to Sam and he said Samuel and he said here once again. Samuel says it again he's like a scratch record that ain't here I am.

He says here I am. And he said what is the word of the Lord had spoken to you. Now imagine having to tell Eli this is the man who has discipled you has loved you has cared for you has taken care of you.

And he says I want to know what the Lord told you. And he is fixing to drop the hammer on him. He's fixing to give him the same condemnation that came from this other dude that we don't even know his name.

Now this is going to be a personal confrontation between Samuel and Eli. He's gonna say hey God's gonna condemn your sons. He's gonna he's gonna condemn you. He's gonna condemn your son. He's gonna cut your the priesthood off forever.

So Eli's sons he said he's gonna cut these people off forever. Ultimately he said he's gonna cut the house of Eli off forever. So he's gonna cut Eli's priesthood out forever forever and ever. That does not take place in chapter 4.

When we get there we'll talk about how he removes that the actual removal of Eli and his house and priesthood comes in second King 1st Kings chapter 2. And we'll let's turn there real quick. Don't have time to get into all the details of what has taken place.

In short there was a rise up against to try to overthrow David as being king and basically tried to do a coup. There was instructions given to Solomon as to his son when he was instituted as king as to what he was to do with the riffraff that had come against him.

So in verse 26 it says this. Then Abathar the priest of the king said the king said to him go back to Anathoth the field of your own field for you deserve to die. But I will not put you to death at this time because you carry the Ark of the Lord God before my father David.

And because you were afflicted in everything at the time my father was afflicted. So Solomon dismissed Abathar from the priesthood of the Lord in order that he may fulfill the word of the Lord concerning that's what was spoken to the house of Eli and Shiloh.

It's it when he is removed from his position. He has sent Abathar. He has sent back for what he has done. He tried to overthrow David by Adonai. I want time to get into all that. But with Adonai and what he was trying to do to usurp the throne from Solomon and all that he said.

Okay I should put you to death for sacrificing anointing a person that should not have been King King. I'm not going to put you to death. What I am going to do is remove you from your position because what you did was wrong and I'm going to send you back to your hometown.

And the the house of Eli was squashed forever. So this guy these guys had children. Abathar would have come from him so obviously they were kids. So the priesthood still would have been in line to Eli.

It was not squashed until Solomon comes along and removes him from this position. And I don't have time to get not. This goes to Zadok. That would be the line that would be David's priesthood. I mean Solomon's priesthood.

He was David's priest. And they would be faithful priest up until the time of the Rome to Rome started instituting puppet priests. Everybody follow me so far. Okay. Back to 1st Samuel. So Samuel. Oh I'm sorry we're 17.

He said what is the word spoke. He said don't hide anything from you. May God do so to you more. So if you hide anything from me of all the words he has spoken uses Samuel told him everything he held nothing from him it is.

And then saying Eli says it is the Lord let him do whatever seems good. And Samuel grew with the Lord and let not none of his words fail all of Israel from that day forward from Dan to bear. Shia knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the Lord and the Lord appeared again at Shiloh because the Lord revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the Lord and thus the word of Samuel came to all of Israel.

So it's at this time that we see that Samuel is now established as a prophet before he never forget it. How is a person a priest under the Old Covenant. How is a person a priest. What's that then. What else.

Not every Levite was a priest but every priest was a Levite. Understand or no. That confusing. You had three men come out of here. Then out of this line which would have been Koa. You would have had am ram run out of the family tree line.

You'd have am ram out. Remember Moses and Aaron. If you were going to be a Levitical priest an act an actual priest that made sacrifice before the Lord. Who did you have to come from the line of Aaron.

Aaron Aaron. So if you're going to be a priest you have to be born in the right tribe then born from the right father in order to be a priest. Correct. Does anybody see a problem with Samuel right now.

Does anybody see a problem with Samuel or is it huh. He did not come from the line of Aaron. He did not come from the line of Aaron. Now go to second Chronicles. I'm sorry. First Chronicles. Let's start.

In verse 16 we're gonna do some family tree and a bunch of funny names. Chapter 6. First first Chronicles. Chapter 6. So you have the sons of Levi were Gershom Coeth and mayor are. These are the names of the sons of Gershom.

And it gives live them. Shimmy. And the sons of Coeth were. That's this guy who would have been here. Okay. It gives the sons of Coeth or am ram is a whore Hebron and use of the sons of mirror were Mali Mushi and the these are the families of the Levites according to their father's household.

And it goes to Gershom and it gives all of Gershom and then it goes down the sons of Coeth in verse 22 says. The sons of Coeth were Amenadab the son of Korah Korah his son Asor and Elkanah his son who was Elkanah Hannah's husband.

Making who. That that makes Samuel a what a Kohathite but a Levite. Everybody follow me. This is important. It's can see how to know. It's confusing because you're trying to follow a family tree but with people.

Okay keeps breaking down. He is a Kohathite. The responsibility of the Levitical line. These men were responsible for all of the Levites were responsible for what. And and for anything pertaining to the tabernacle in the temple.

So before the temple is established. What was the Levites responsibility. Anything for tech. What's that. Well that would have been these guys. This would have been. Yeah that would have been these guys.

But the Kohathites they would have been the lighting of the lampstand. What was what was Samuel doing. He was like the lampstand. He would minister before the Lord with the show bread opening of the doors to the tabernacle incense.

This is how he was a Kohathite. Samuel was doing all of these things before the Lord. The only thing Samuel didn't use it only Samuel did not do was do what sacrifice at the tabernacle. That was not his responsibility.

And as we move forward we go. Okay. Well how did he become a priest. One God in this transitional time put him as a priest. As we read through 1st Samuel you're not going to find a one time that Samuel made a sacrifice at the tabernacle.

Therefore he did not violate the Mosaic law. I don't know about y 'all but when I'm reading through Samuel when I was reading years ago I'm going how did he not violate the Mosaic legislation. He was not at the line of Aaron.

And I hope that some of y 'all have caught on to that and go man I'm having a problem understanding what was Samuel's role if he was sacrificing at the tabernacle. Understand that he doesn't do in the Ark of the Lord when he starts making sacrifices in Rama Gilgal Mizpah Rama the tabernacle is taken away and hauled out into captivity.

Okay that's what's fixing to take place. Then then he will be the one that stands as the prophet. So so if you're going to be a priest you have to be born first of the tribe of Levi. Then you've got to be specifically a Kohathite.

Then you got to come from the line of Amram. And then you got to come from the line of Aaron. So you got to be born the right person to be here. How does a person become a prophet. What's that. Bingo.

God called hey man you you if you if you want to be a Levite and you're the tribe of Judah. Tough. You can want it all you want. But you can't. And we actually have where some of the descendants of the Kohathites thought that they should have been able to do what Aaron did and says wait a minute in Numbers chapter 22.

What makes you special. What makes you special. We're all born from Koha from Kohath. What makes you specialer than us. Why can't we do what you're doing in the temple of the Lord. And he says this to them.

Moses says look here Korah God has given you a very good service to take care of all these implements. That's what he was doing. You take care of all these things. God has blessed you to do all of these things.

And now you want to take the priesthood. You think just because you were born a Kohathite that you think that you can take over the priesthood as well. He said meet me out here in the morning and we'll let the Lord pick out what happens.

Anybody remember what happened to Korah and all his family and swallowed every one of them. And then while the ground was still smoking the congregation come out there and complained about what Moses had done or what God had done for Moses.

And what happened again. Same thing happened. People quit talking then. So when a person becomes a prophet called by God it don't matter what tribe you are it doesn't matter because when the call of God's on your life to be his mouthpiece it doesn't come up from a certain tribe.

It comes from a commissioned by God. And that's what takes place. Here is now Samuel becomes the transitional time when there's going to be no tabernacle. Understand the tabernacles fixing to go away.

It's fixing to be hauled off in a captivity of 20 years that's going to end up in a Benidab's house for probably a total of 60. There's this tabernacle and the whole Ark of the Covenant going into making a sin for atonement Yom Kippur.

All that's going to go away for a transitional period of time until David brings it back in the end of Samuel chapter 24 27 somewhere around there 2nd Samuel so he brings it back to Jerusalem. So Samuel then becomes the person that's going to stand between the people and God and he will make sacrifices to them at Rama Mizpah Gilgal he will establish Kings.

He will do all those things that a Levitical priesthood of the line of Aaron would have done at the tabernacle but away from the dwelling place of God. Anybody under follow me. That's how. Because I'm saying if you're reading your Bible you should go.

How is he not violated the Mosaic legislation. That's how Samuel did not. He never once violated by being a prick acting as if he was a line of Aaron when he was not okay. Anybody questions comments. Anybody confused better more so than when they came in it would it would be say it would be Zadok it fall if you follow that if we get into sec I would like to continue on after 1st Samuel into 2nd Samuel because if we stop at second first time you end with a dead King.

So I would like to where God had established a I don't know what we're going to do yet and we got 31 weeks still okay or whatever it is. That was. Well because then it starts setting up the the actual dwelling place of God which when they went into the time of the judges the dwelling place of God was just circulating it was not a an established place where they were doing the feasts and all of that.

Well when you get into a second Samuel all that becomes to start develop to where God's gonna have a stationary place to call his his house and but answer your question when the line of Eli goes away there is someone that takes his place.

It's the the faithful line of Zadok and he will be the one that will replace Abathar and he be he sets up the bringing of the tabernacle back to Jerusalem and then sets up sacrifice and starts making yes anybody else we've got.

Yeah. Well who. We don't have our tabernacle drawn anymore but hey if he's hearing a voice in there and he's saying it ain't me right there ain't nobody else supposed to be this close. But if you if you had a drawing of a of the tabernacle nobody but a Levite was supposed to go through them them shades or gates or however you want to call it anybody else man they were to be put to death.

What's that. Yeah. So once you went through there and if they were inside the first sanctuary which is often called the holy place and the holy of holy is called the most holy place where the Ark of the Covenant would have been they would have been laying there on the floor in the the the sanctuary the sanctuary the holy place where the menorah would have been to show bread and the the altar of incense would have been.

So if he says hey man you're hearing something and it ain't me it's got to be it's got to be the Lord. It's got to be the Lord. Any other questions. If I've not explained something well enough tell me.

Because I know it's confusing. It is because you're trying to follow if you if you just look at the family tree of the Levites and you go from from the Kohathites Kohath Merar and Gershon and you try to follow all of that without putting it on a piece of paper you're because it makes your head hurt.

You know even last week when you asked the question about Ephraimite and Ephraim you know that should that was a if you're reading your Bible that should have been a question we all should have asked.

But I didn't want to explain all that till we got to here. Could some translations. I think say yes. But who's that. ESV. What is your say. In 1st Samuel chapter 1 verse 1. It'll be should be the last phrase.

It says the land of Ephraim Ephraimite Ephraithite. What does it say.

Yeah first chapter goes back to his to his mom and dad. Yeah okay yeah that's it.

First 1st Samuel chapter 1 goes to the end of verse 1 it says. And does anybody say it says Elkanah the son of Jehoram the son of Elu the son of Tuho the son of Zuth the son of who was an Ephraimite. Who said.

Whose translation says Ephraimite. How many how many. How many. Who says Ephraithite. Andy yours is New King James. Yours says Ephraimite or Ephraithite. He's a. Is it a fight or a might. That's the difference.

He's a might. Okay. Okay here's here's the difference. He was from and I remember what I spoke to you. I said he was from the hill country of Ephraim. That's where the the Elkanah and his family dwelled in Ephraim.

Remember the Levites did not have a an actual tribe land. Everybody remember that. But who doesn't know that the Levites were not given any land. They were to dwell within the tribes in a certain land.

So here it is. Elkanah being a Levite of the descendant of Kohith were living in the hill country of Ephraim. Then as you go down you get to the last. It talks about his parents or hit the son of so-and-so the son of Zuth and Ephraimite.

One translation. I think Mike's your says that Ephraithite. Ephraim. What's that. Ephraithite was from the land of Ephrath which was Bethlehem huh. Both because Elkanah was from the hill country of Ephraim.

His dad Zuth was from where. Ephraim. Ephraithite. Ephraithite. Bethlehem. Bethlehem. Yes ma 'am. And that does happen. I go back to when Andy was teaching through and I can't I don't can't remember if he addressed this or because I didn't hear how long he was in Jephthah.

But Jephthah was a Gileadite. Right. Is there a tribe. That's a Gileadite. Well what it was speaking of a location that location was the land that had been given to Gad Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh.

So he was a Gileadite based on his location. So if you were in the land of Bethlehem you would have been or Ramah which is just outside that you would have been considered an Ephraithite not mite. Okay all.

Right. So Samuel is going to act as a priest to the people as a Kohathite. Okay. Doing the ministering before the people but not making atonement for their sins at the tabernacle. That's how he does not violate the Mosaic legislation.

If anybody else was to go into the tabernacle and to make a sacrifice at the brazen altar or to make an atonement for sin on the Holy of Holies. That was not the line of Aaron. What does it say. Would happen.

Maybe incinerated. Hey if I'll even say this look at what happened to to Aaron's sons when they dedicated the tabernacle. Not only did God count the tabernacle as being holy and him holy you couldn't come to him in an unspecified way.

Imagine being of the wrong line. You'd have been zapped dead. He said it himself. So he does not make atonement for sin at the Ark of the Covenant not violating the Mosaic legislation. But he does make sacrifice at Gilgal.

You'll see in chapter I think it's seven. He sets up a altar. Yeah. When we get to chapter seven it talks about Samuel's ministry. It says that Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. He you he had a circuit where he would go from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah and he judged Israel in all these places.

And he would return to his house which was in Ramah and there he would judge Israel. And he built an altar to the Lord. What did they do on altars. Sacrifice. Sacrifice. It's not until we see the the temple erected it's set up as the established place of the non-moving tent type of God that we don't see sacrifices taking place anywhere else.

You say well that just doesn't seem right. That he would be making a sacrifice. And he's not a Levite. Well then if you have a problem with that if that is your mind and you're thinking that well you know David made an intercession for the people as well in chapter I think it's 27 of 2nd Samuel when he God told him not make a census and he senses he took a census of the people.

And even Joe have his commander say hey man God told you not to do this. He said do it anyway. And he did. And God says all right. Because you disobeyed me. I'm gonna give you two options just you know send a plague out in the hands.

So he starts killing the people. The plague goes out. A man a prophet comes to him and he says David God told me to tell you if you go make a sacrifice at this location and I think it was in Gilgal. You go to Gilgal and you may build an altar and you make a sacrifice.

God will accept that sacrifice and he will stop the plague for you interceding for the people. So you understand that God at times does accept sacrifices from people in other locations. But he would not accept the sacrifice from anybody if they were not of the line of Aaron at the temple or tabernacle.

Wasn't there basically. Yeah. He struck him with an illness. He did. Yep. He sure did. He struck him with the illness that took his life. Yep. Yep. I think it was you King Uzziah. I think it was. Yeah.

But yeah he was struck with leprosy or something like that. Yeah. Yeah anything else I can confuse everybody about the Levitical priesthood. And see that's a confusing thing too as well. We talk about the Levitical priesthood.

I know. Because when you talk about the Levitical priesthood that would encompass all of the Colophites the Gershomites and the Marites. Because what did all of those three descendants of these men do they took care of all this the the duties of the tabernacle.

I'm we're talking about the you know the sockets that they put it all together to stretch into the go the porpoise skins to keep it. The the taking of the courtyard the hauling out of ashes and bones and all the stuff that needed to be carried out of outside from the sacrifice had to be burned outside.

All these men took these men took care of those things. So when you talk about the Levitical priesthood as a whole big umbrella it would include all of these men. But the ones that actually were priest high priest sacrificing priest were only of the line of Aaron.

He was from the line of Levi. Therefore he could be hand he could be. Basically here you go. Yeah here you go. Because he he has already been established by his birth that he could he could stay at the tabernacle all the days of his life if he wanted or up until the time that he was unable to serve whatever age that was.