World English Bible

1 Chronicles 26:13

“They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every gate.”

Verse in context — 1 Chronicles 26

Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.

Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in the house of Yahweh.

They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every gate.

The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.

Genealogies and David’s reign, emphasizing temple worship.