1 Chronicles 24:13 Meaning and Explanation

The list moves into its second half, the thirteenth lot falling to Huppah and the fourteenth to Jeshebeab. More priestly households take their numbered places in the unbroken cycle of service.

However unfamiliar these names sound to us, each belonged to people God knew and called. The roll of the courses is a reminder that the work of worship is carried by a great company across generations. We join a service far older and wider than ourselves.