Nehemiah 11:1
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The People Dwelling in Jerusalem
11 Now the leaders of the people dwelt at Jerusalem; the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to dwell in Jerusalem, (A)the holy city, and nine-tenths were to dwell in other cities.
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Isaiah 48:2
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2 For they call themselves (A)after the holy city,
And (B)lean on the God of Israel;
The Lord of hosts is His name:
Isaiah 52:1
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God Redeems Jerusalem
52 Awake, awake!
Put on your strength, O Zion;
Put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city!
For the uncircumcised (A)and the unclean
Shall no longer come to you.
Nehemiah 11:18
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18 All the Levites in (A)the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four.
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Nehemiah 10:34
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34 We cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, (A)for bringing the wood offering into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at the appointed times year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God (B)as it is written in the Law.
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Matthew 4:5
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5 Then the devil took Him up (A)into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple,
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Acts 1:24
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24 And they prayed and said, “You, O Lord, (A)who know the hearts of all, show which of these two You have chosen
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Matthew 27:53
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53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
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Proverbs 16:33
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33 The lot is cast into the lap,
But its every decision is from the Lord.
Psalm 122:5
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5 (A)For thrones are set there for judgment,
The thrones of the house of David.
Nehemiah 7:4-5
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The Captives Who Returned to Jerusalem(A)
4 Now the city was large and spacious, but the people in it were (B)few, and the houses were not rebuilt. 5 Then my God put it into my heart to gather the nobles, the rulers, and the people, that they might be registered by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of those who had come up in the first return, and found written in it:
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1 Chronicles 26:13
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13 And they (A)cast lots for each gate, the small as well as the great, according to their father’s house.
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Judges 20:9-10
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9 but now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: We will go up (A)against it by lot. 10 We will take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to make provisions for the people, that when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may repay all the vileness that they have done in Israel.”
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Joshua 18:10
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10 Then Joshua cast (A)lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there (B)Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their [a]divisions.
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Deuteronomy 17:8-9
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8 (A)“If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the (B)place which the Lord your God chooses. 9 And (C)you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and (D)to the judge there in those days, and inquire of them; (E)they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment.
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