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John Gill's Exposition on 1 Chronicles 25:8
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they cast lots, ward against ward, etc.] That is, which ward or course of the singers should answer to and attend on the first ward or course of the priests in their weekly service, and which the second, and so on: as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar; no regard was had to the age of a person, his being the firstborn or a younger brother, or to his office and station, whether as a teacher or a learner in the science of singing; he was made the head of a course, as the lot came up; and it may easily be observed, by comparing the lots in the following verses with the sons of the chief singers, according to the order of them in (<132502>1 Chronicles 25:2-4) that the younger are often preferred in the courses by lot to the elder, of which even the first lot is an instance. Ver. 9-31. Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph, etc.] His second son to the preference of the firstborn, (<132502>1 Chronicles 25:2), the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve: and which must also be understood of Joseph, and supplied to him; for those being both in one verse, as Jarchi observes, it is but once mentioned, but must be supplied, or otherwise the number of two hundred and eighty eight could not be made up; the same is observed of all the other lots and courses to the end of the chapter as here, and therefore need no more remarks.
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