What does 1 Chronicles 26:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate."
Verse 1 Chronicles 26:13. _THEY CAST LOTS - FOR EVERY GATE._] None of these captains or their companies were permitted to choose which gate they would guard, but each took his appointment by _lot_....
5. THE PORTERS AND OTHER TEMPLE OFFICERS CHAPTER 26 _ 1. The porters (1 Chronicles 26:1)_ 2. The keepers of the gates (1 Chronicles 26:13) 3. The Levites over the treasures (1 Chronicles 26:20) 4...
FURTHER LEVITICAL TEMPLE OFFICIALS. These include the gatekeepers (1 Chronicles 26:1), those who were over the treasuries (1 Chronicles 26:20), and the officers and judges who were for the outward bus...
CAST LOTS. See note on 1Ch 25:8, 1 Chronicles 25:9. FOR EVERY GATE. This ordering of David was according to the plan of the Temple, given by God "in writing" to David. See 1Ch 28:11-13, 1 Chronicles...
18. THE GATEKEEPERS (1 Chronicles 26:1-28) TEXT 1 Chronicles 26:1. For the courses of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. 2. And Meshelemiah had sons...
_AND THEY CAST LOTS, AS WELL THE SMALL AS THE GREAT, ACCORDING TO THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, FOR EVERY GATE._ They cast lots. Their departments of duty, such as the gates they should attend to, were...
PARTICULARS RESPECTING VARIOUS TEMPLE OFFICIALS 1. The divisions of the porters] i.e. the courses of the gate-keepers or sentries who stood on guard at the entrances of the Temple. They were drawn fr...
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 26 THE *TEMPLE GUARDS – 1 CHRONICLES 26:1-19 V1 These are the groups of the *temple guards: From the *clan of Ko...
AND THEY CAST LOTS. — Compare 1 Chronicles 25:8. AS WELL THE SMALL AS THE GREAT... — Rather, _Small and great_ (senior and junior) _alike, according to their houses, for each gate._ The posts of the...
וַ יַּפִּ֨ילוּ גֹורָלֹ֜ות כַּ † קָּטֹ֧ן כַּ † גָּדֹ֛ול לְ בֵ֥ית אֲבֹותָ֖ם לְ שַׁ֥עַר וָ...
In no particular did the arrangements of the king fall short. Not only Levites, priests, and singers were arranged for, but porters also, and such as had charge of all the stores set apart for the sac...
The office of a porter in the temple, must certainly have been an office of high repute and importance, as appears by the characters given of such to whose lot it fell. They are said to be mighty men...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 THROUGH 27. From this chapter to Verses 28, 29 of chapter 26 all refers to the house which is to be built. We see the provision that David made of everythi...
AND THEY CAST LOTS,.... To determine at which gate each should stand, who at this gate, and who at the other, c. AS WELL THE SMALL AS THE GREAT, ACCORDING TO THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, FOR EVERY GAT...
_They cast lots, as well the small as the great_ Determining the times and places of their service, not by age or dignity, but merely by lot. _According to the house of their fathers_ A several lot be...
1 The diuisions of the porters. 13 The gates assigned by lot. 20 The Leuites that had charge of the treasures. 29 Officers and Iudges. 1 CONCERNING the diuisions of the porters: of the Korhites wa...
The Other Levitical offices. Division and Work of the Porters....
AS WELL THE SMALL AS THE GREAT: Or, as well for the small as for the great...
THEY CAST LOTS, AS WELL THE SMALL AS THE GREAT; determining the times and places of their service not by age or dignity, but merely by lot. ACCORDING TO THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS; a several lot being...
1 Chronicles 26:13 cast H5307 (H8686) lots H1486 gate H8179 small H6996 great H1419 fathers H1 house H1004 as well the small as the great - Heb. or, as well for the small as for the great, 1 Chronicl...
CONTENTS: The division of the temple porters. Levites as treasurers. Officers and judges CHARACTERS: God, Shelemiah, Zechariah, Shuppin, Hozah, Obed-edom. CONCLUSION: Whatever service God wishes men...
1 Chronicles 26:28. _Joab had dedicated_ the spoils of war. Cyrus set apart the tenth of all his spoils for the gods. It was much the same among the Jews: in a line from Abraham, who gave the tenths t...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 26:1 See 1 Chronicles 9:17 and 1 Chronicles 23:4. The Levitical gatekeepers were to safeguard the sanctuary from trespassers and from idolatrous practices (see 2 Chro...
CRITICAL NOTES.] The courses of the porters (1 Chronicles 26:1); lots cast for gate-keepers (1 Chronicles 26:13); keepers of treasures (1 Chronicles 26:20); the officers and the judges (1 Chronicles 2...
EXPOSITION This chapter is occupied in its first nineteen verses with an enumeration of the porters and Then of their arrangement. The porters were those who were to have charge of the entrances of t...
Chapter twenty-six: the division of the porters and then their assignment over the various gates around the temple. And then in verse twenty: those who had charge over the treasures of the house of th...
1 Chronicles 24:31; 1 Chronicles 25:8...
Cast lots — Determining the times and places of their service not by age or dignity, but merely by lot. Every gate — That it might be known to whom the care of each gate was more especially committed....