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1 Chronicles 26:13 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 26 · verse 13
And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.1 Chronicles 26:13 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 26:13 in context
11Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
12Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.
13And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.
14And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
15To Obededom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- smallqâṭânabbreviatedH6996 →
- greatgâdôwlgreatH1419 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- castnâphalto fall, in a great variety of applicationsH5307 →
- lotsgôwrâlproperly, a pebbleH1486 →
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Observe, I. There were porters appointed to attend the temple, who guarded all the avenues that let to it, opened and shut all the outer gates and attended at them, not only for the state, but for service, to direct and instruct those who were going to worship in the courts of the sanctuary in the decorum they were to…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-19