历代志上 25:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

這些人，無論大小，不分師生，都一同抽籤分班次。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
这 些 人 无 论 大 小 ， 为 师 的 、 为 徒 的 ， 都 一 同 掣 签 分 了 班 次 。

Contextual Overview

⁸ Everyone threw lots to choose the time his family was to serve at the Temple. The young and the old, the teacher and the student, had to throw lots. ⁹ First, the lot fell to Joseph, from the family of Asaph. Second, twelve men were chosen from Gedaliah, his sons and relatives. ¹⁰ Third, twelve men were chosen from Zaccur, his sons and relatives. ¹¹ Fourth, twelve men were chosen from Izri, his sons and relatives. ¹² Fifth, twelve men were chosen from Nethaniah, his sons and relatives. ¹³ Sixth, twelve men were chosen from Bukkiah, his sons and relatives. ¹⁴ Seventh, twelve men were chosen from Jesarelah, his sons and relatives. ¹⁵ Eighth, twelve men were chosen from Jeshaiah, his sons and relatives. ¹⁶ Ninth, twelve men were chosen from Mattaniah, his sons and relatives. ¹⁷ Tenth, twelve men were chosen from Shimei, his sons and relatives.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cast lots: 1 Chronicles 24:5, Leviticus 16:8, 1 Samuel 14:41, 1 Samuel 14:42, Proverbs 16:33, Acts 1:26

ward against ward: 1 Chronicles 24:31, 1 Chronicles 26:13, 1 Chronicles 26:16, Nehemiah 12:24

the teacher: Even among the twenty-four leaders, some were more expert than others; some were teachers, and others were scholars; but every one was taken by the solemn casting of lots, without any regard to these distinctions. Thus all things were disposed for the preserving of order, and avoiding all disputes about precedence: there being no respect had, in this divine distribution, to birth, but the younger in course preceded the elder. 1 Chronicles 15:22, 2 Chronicles 23:13

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 26:12 - wards 2 Chronicles 31:15 - as well Nehemiah 10:34 - cast Malachi 2:12 - the master and the scholar

Cross-References

Genesis 15:15
And you, Abram, will die in peace and will be buried at an old age.

Genesis 25:7
Abraham lived to be one hundred seventy-five years old.

Genesis 25:8
He breathed his last breath and died at an old age, after a long and satisfying life.

Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah in the field of Ephron east of Mamre. (Ephron was the son of Zohar the Hittite.)

Genesis 25:17
Ishmael lived one hundred thirty-seven years and then breathed his last breath and died.

Genesis 25:28
Isaac loved Esau because he hunted the wild animals that Isaac enjoyed eating. But Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 25:29
One day Jacob was boiling a pot of vegetable soup. Esau came in from hunting in the fields, weak from hunger.

Genesis 35:18
Rachel gave birth to the son, but she herself died. As she lay dying, she named the boy Son of My Suffering, but Jacob called him Benjamin.

Genesis 49:29
Then Israel gave them a command and said, "I am about to die. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

Numbers 20:24
"Aaron will die. He will not enter the land that I'm giving to the Israelites, because you both acted against my command at the waters of Meribah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 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 1 Chronicles 25:2 that the younger are often preferred in the courses by lot to the elder, of which even the first lot is an instance.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As well the small as the great - Compare 1 Chronicles 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 Heman, should on each occasion be taken. Asaph was given the precedence over his brethren, and his four courses were assigned the first, and then each alternate place. Jeduthun took rank next, and received alternate places, first with Asaph, and then with Heman, until his courses were exhausted. After this, all the later places fell necessarily to Heman, whose courses continue without interruption from the 15th.