according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
"he says to them, O ye new ones, to the incense come, and cast lots and they cast lots, and he is worthy, whom he accounts worthy--and he that is accounted worthy of the incense, takes a vessel, and the vessel is like to a large golden bushel, that holds three kabs, and a bowl in the middle of it, full and heaped up with incense, with a cover, and a sort of a linen cloth put over it.''