It is not unusual to find contradictions between different historical reports about events in the Hebrew Bible. One such contradiction comes in the form of the tribal affiliation Samuel has. In one source (1 Sam 1:1), Samuel comes from a family well embedded in the hills of Efraim. The description gives no place for any other tribe than Efraim. On the other hand, 1Chro 6:18-23 describe a person called Samuel who has the same genealogy as Samuel in 1Sam. However, this Samuel belongs to a Levitical family from the line of Qehat.
In this article I want to examine the information about Samuel and see if he was a Levi or not and if so, is there a contradiction between the two sources?
