1 Chronicles 26:12
“Among these were the diuisions of the porters, euen among the chiefe men, hauing wards one against another, to minister in the house of the Lord.”
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1 Chronicles 26:12 Context
10Also Hosah of the children of Merari, had sonnes: Simri the chiefe, (for though he was not the first borne, yet his father made him the chiefe) 11Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the thirde, Zechariah the fourth: all the sonnes and brethren of Hosah, were thirteene. 12Among these were the diuisions of the porters, euen among the chiefe men, hauing wards one against another, to minister in the house of the Lord. 13¶ And they cast lots as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers for euery gate. 14And the lot Eastward fel to Shelemiah; then for Zechariah his sonne (a wise counseller:) they cast lots, and his lot came out Northward.
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Among these [were] the divisions of the porters, [even] among the chief men, [having] wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.
- King James Version
To these divisions of the gatekeepers, the chief men, {were given} duties like their relatives to minister in the house of the LORD.
- New American Standard Version (1995)