Nehemiah 11:1
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The Leaders in Jerusalem
11 Now the leaders of the people (A)lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people (B)cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem (C)the holy city, while nine out of ten[a] remained in the other towns.
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- Nehemiah 11:1 Hebrew nine hands
Isaiah 48:2
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2 For they call themselves after the holy city,
(A)and stay themselves on the God of Israel;
the Lord of hosts is his name.
Isaiah 52:1
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The Lord's Coming Salvation
52 (A)Awake, awake,
put on your strength, O Zion;
(B)put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, (C)the holy city;
(D)for there shall no more come into you
the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Nehemiah 11:18
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18 All the Levites in (A)the holy city were 284.
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Nehemiah 10:34
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34 (A)We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots (B)for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, (C)as it is written in the Law.
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Matthew 4:5
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5 (A)Then the devil took him to (B)the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple
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Acts 1:24
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24 And (A)they prayed and said, “You, Lord, (B)who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen
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Matthew 27:53
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53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into (A)the holy city and appeared to many.
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Proverbs 16:33
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Psalm 122:5
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5 There (A)thrones for judgment were set,
the thrones of the house of David.
Nehemiah 7:4-5
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4 The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt.
Lists of Returned Exiles
5 Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of (A)those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:
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1 Chronicles 26:13
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13 And they cast lots by fathers' houses, (A)small and great alike, for their gates.
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Judges 20:9-10
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9 But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot, 10 and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may repay Gibeah of Benjamin for all the outrage that they have committed in Israel.”
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Joshua 18:10
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10 and Joshua (A)cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord. And there Joshua apportioned the land to the people of Israel, (B)to each his portion.
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Deuteronomy 17:8-9
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Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges
8 “If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to (A)the place that the Lord your God will choose. 9 (B)And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and (C)they shall declare to you the decision.
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