A moment in scripture
1 Chronicles 26:11
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Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Chronicles 26:9
And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.
- 1 Chronicles 26:10
Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)
- 1 Chronicles 26:12
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.
- 1 Chronicles 26:13
And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.