1 Chronicles 25:8

They cast lots for their duties, all alike, the same for the young as well as the old, the teacher as well as the student.

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And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

In Context

7They and their brothers who were skilled and trained to make music to Yahweh numbered 288.

9Now regarding Asaph's sons: The first lot fell to Joseph's family; the second fell to Gedaliah's family, twelve persons in number;

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Cross References

Leviticus 16:8Then Aaron must cast lots for the two goats, one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

1 Chronicles 15:22Kenaniah, leader of the Levites, was the director of the singing because he was a teacher of music.

1 Chronicles 24:31These men who were the head of each father's house and each of their younger brothers, cast lots in the presence of King David, and Zadok and Ahimelech, along with the leaders of the families of the priests and Levites. They cast lots just as Aaron's descendants had done.

1 Chronicles 26:13They threw lots, both young and old, corresponding to their families, for every gate.

2 Chronicles 23:13and she looked, and, behold, the king was standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the commanders and the trumpeters were by the king. All the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and the singers were playing musical instruments and leading the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and shouted, “Treason! Treason!”

Proverbs 16:33The lots are cast into the lap, 1 but the decision is from Yahweh.

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 →

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