1Ch 25:8, Ezr 10:18-19, Neh 13:28-29, Isa 9:14-16, 24:1-2, Eze 14:10 | TSK | STEP | cast lots. ward against ward. 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 25:8

cast lots.

24:5; Le 16:8; 1Sa 14:41,42; Pr 16:33; Ac 1:26

ward against ward.

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.

15:22; 2Ch 23:13

Ezra 10:18-19

the sons.

9:1; Le 21:7,13-15; 1Sa 2:22-24; Ne 13:28; Jer 23:11,14; Eze 44:22

Mal 2:8,9; 1Ti 3:11

Jeshua.

2:2; 3:2; 5:2; 1Ch 6:14,15; Ne 12:10; Hag 1:1; Zec 3:1

Joshua. Maaseiah.

Ne 8:4,7

gave their hands.They bound themselves in the most solemn manner to do as the rest of the delinquents had done, and make and acknowledgment to God of their iniquity, by offering each a ram for a trespass offering.

2Ki 10:15; 1Ch 29:24; 2Ch 30:8; *marg:

La 5:6; Ga 2:9

a ram.

Le 5:15,16; 6:4,6

Nehemiah 13:28-29

And one.Josephus relates, that this young man was named Manasseh; and that at his request, Sanballat and the Samaritans built their temple upon mount Gerizim, in opposition to that at Jerusalem, at which he officiated, in some measure, according to the Mosaic ritual.

Joiada.

Eliashib.

son in law.

Sanballat.

I chased.

25; Ps 101:8; Pr 20:8,26; Ro 13:3,4

Remember.

6:14; Ps 59:5-13; 2Ti 4:14