"For He will hide me in His tabernacle on an evil day; He will conceal me in the concealment of His tent; on a rock He will raise me up. And now, my head will be raised up above my enemies around me." Rabbi Yaakov interpreted a verse in Joshua 8:30, "Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal." Rabbi Yosei bar Chanina said, "The altar was only dismantled by a prophet."
And what is the reason for "Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings anywhere you please" (Deuteronomy 12:13)? Elijah used to offer sacrifices on Mount Carmel during the time of the prohibition of altars, every day. Rabbi Shmuel said, "He accomplished all these things with his words" (1 Kings 18:36). "If the people of Israel return in repentance, the rains will come for them."
Rabbi Yonatan brought a verse from the book of Judges 6:25, "That night the Lord said to him, 'Take the second bull from your father's herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your father's altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.'" Rabbi Acha said, "Seven sins were committed with Gideon's bull: it was made from an Asherah tree, it had flawed stones, it was an unclean animal, it was worked and made foreign, it was slaughtered at night, and it was sacrificed on a high place."
I only have Gideon to refer to. Samuel is also cited as an example in 1 Samuel 7:9, "Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and sacrificed it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. He cried out to the Lord on behalf of Israel, and the Lord answered him." Samuel was still young and a Levite at the time.