And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
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Gill's Exposition
And they cast lots, ward against ward,.... 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…
Barnes' Notes
As well the small as the great - Compare 1Ch 24:31. The lot was not applied indiscriminately to all the 24 courses, but was only used to settle which course of Asaph, which of Jeduthun, and which of…
Twenty-four persons are named in the beginning of this chapter as sons of those three great men, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun. Ethan was the third (Ch1 6:44), but probably he was dead before the…
The Allotment of the Courses
8. ward againstward] R.V. (guessing the sense rightly) for their charges (i.e. duties), all alike. The Hebrew text however is faulty.
the teacher as the scholar LXX.…
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