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La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

1 Crónicas 25:8

Y echaron suertes para los turnos del servicio, entrando el pequeño con el grande, lo mismo el maestro que el discípulo.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Asaph;   Music;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Lots;   Music;   Ward, or Guard;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Education in Bible Times;   Priest, Priesthood;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Izri;   Levites;   Music;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Disciples;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Gershon, Gershonites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lots;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Levites;   Music;   School;   Ward;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Lot;   Music;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Augury;   Disciple;   Divide;   Mallothi;   Ward;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Education;   Lots;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Y echaron suertes para designar sus cargos, todos por igual, tanto el pequeño como el grande, tanto el maestro como el discípulo.
La Biblia Reina-Valera
Chronicles 25:8"> 8 Y echaron suertes para los turnos del servicio, entrando el pequeño con el grande, lo mismo el maestro que el discípulo.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Asimismo echaron suertes guarda contra guarda , el chico con el grande, el sabio con el discípulo.

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

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.


 
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