1 Chronicles 26:12

These courses of the doorkeepers, even the chief men, had wards over against their brethren, to minister in the house of the LORD.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Among 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.

In Context

11Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth; all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.

13And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every gate.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 25:8And they cast lots ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 26:2-20

The Officers of the Levites. ( b. c. Date.) 1 Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. 2 And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, 3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh. 4 Moreover the sons of Obed-edom were, Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth, 5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar… Read the whole commentary →

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