Teks -- 1 Chronicles 26:13 (NET)

26:13 They cast lots, both young and old, according to their families, to determine which gate they would be responsible for.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 1Ch 26:13 - Cast lots

Determining the times and places of their service not by age or dignity, but merely by lot.

Wesley: 1Ch 26:13 - Every gate

That it might be known to whom the care of each gate was more especially committed.

JFB: 1Ch 26:13 - they cast lots

Their departments of duty, such as the gates they should attend to, were allotted in the same manner as those of the other Levitical bodies, and the names of the chiefs or captains are given, with the respective gates assigned them.

Clarke: 1Ch 26:13 - They cast lots - for every gate

They cast lots - for every gate - None of these captains or their companies were permitted to choose which gate they would guard, but each took his appointment by lot.

TSK: 1Ch 26:13 - as well the small as the great

as well the small as the great : Heb. or, as well for the small as for the great, 1Ch 24:31, 1Ch 25:8

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 1Ch 26:13 - They cast lots, as well the small as the great // According to the house of their fathers // For every gate

They cast lots, as well the small as the great determining the times and places of their service not by age or dignity, but merely by lot.

According to the house of their fathers a several lot being allowed for each several house.

For every gate that it might be known to whom the care of each gate was more especially committed.

Gill: 1Ch 26:13 - And they cast lots // as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate

And they cast lots,.... To determine at which gate each should stand, who at this gate, and who at the other, &c.

as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate; meaning, not little ones and grown persons in a family, but the smaller and poorer families, and the larger and richer ones, had their places assigned them at the several gates, as the lot directed; they did not go according to the dignity and precedence of their families, but according to lot.