1 Chronicles 25:8
And they cast lots by their courses, the elder equally with the younger, the learned and the unlearned together.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 16:8And casting lots upon them both, one to be offered to the Lord, and the other to be the emissary goat:
1 Chronicles 15:22And Chonenias chief of the Levites, presided over the prophecy, to give out the tunes: for he was very skilful.
1 Chronicles 24:31And they also cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron before David the king, and Sadoc, and Ahimelech, and the princes of the priestly and Levitical families, both the elder and the younger. The lot divided all equally.
1 Chronicles 26:13And they cast lots equally, both little and great, by their families for every one of the gates.
2 Chronicles 23:13And when she saw the king standing upon the step in the entrance, and the princes, and the companies about him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets, and playing on instruments of divers kinds, and the voice of those that praised, she rent her garments, and said: Treason, treason.
Proverbs 16:33Lots are cast into the lap, but they are disposed of by the Lord.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 25:2-8
The Courses of the Singers. ( b. c. 1015.) 1 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was: 2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king. 3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and… Read the whole commentary →