OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 13

1 Chronicles 26:13

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They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.

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1 Chronicles 26:10–16

10

Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),

11

Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.

12

Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in the LORD’s house.

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They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.

14

The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

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To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.

16

To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite watchman.

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