Chronicles I 25:8

8 And they also cast lots for the daily courses, for the great and the small , of the perfect ones and the learners.

Chronicles I 25:8 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 25:8

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 25:2-4 ) that the younger are often preferred in the courses by lot to the elder, of which even the first lot is an instance.

Chronicles I 25:8 In-Context

6 All these sang hymns with their father in the house of God, with cymbals, and lutes, and harps, for the service of the house of God, near the king, and Asaph, and Idithun, and Aeman.

7 And the number of them after their brethren, those instructed to sing to God, every one that understood was two hundred and eighty-eight.

8 And they also cast lots for the daily courses, for the great and the small , of the perfect ones and the learners.

9 And the first lot of his sons and of his brethren came forth to Asaph the son of Joseph, , Godolias: the second Heneia, his sons and his brethren twelve.

10 The third Zacchur, his sons and his brethren twelve: