Nehemiah 11:1
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Population of the City Increased
11 Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city Jerusalem, while nine-tenths remained in the other towns.(A)
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Isaiah 48:2
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2 For they call themselves after the holy city
and lean on the God of Israel;
the Lord of hosts is his name.(A)
Nehemiah 11:18
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18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.(A)
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Isaiah 52:1
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Let Zion Rejoice
52 Awake; awake;
put on your strength, O Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city,
for the uncircumcised and the unclean
shall enter you no more.(A)
Nehemiah 10:34
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34 We have also cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, by ancestral houses, at appointed times, year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law.(A)
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Matthew 27:53
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53 After his resurrection they came out of the tombs and entered the holy city and appeared to many.
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Matthew 4:5
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5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple,(A)
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Acts 1:24
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24 Then they prayed and said, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which one of these two you have chosen(A)
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Proverbs 16:33
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33 The lot is cast into the lap,
but the decision is the Lord’s alone.
Psalm 122:5
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5 For there the thrones for judgment were set up,
the thrones of the house of David.(A)
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 built.
Lists of the Returned Exiles
5 Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who were the first to come back, and I found the following written in it:
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1 Chronicles 26:13
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13 and they cast lots by ancestral houses, small and great alike, for their gates.(A)
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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[a] against it by lot. 10 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 troops who will go to repay[b] Gibeah of Benjamin for all the disgrace that they have done in Israel.”
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Joshua 18:10
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10 and Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there Joshua apportioned the land to the Israelites, to each a portion.(A)
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Deuteronomy 17:8-9
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Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges
8 “If a judicial decision is too difficult for you to make between one kind of bloodshed and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another—any such matters of dispute in your towns—then you shall immediately go up to the place that the Lord your God will choose,(A) 9 where you shall consult with the Levitical priests and the judge who is in office in those days; they shall announce to you the decision in the case.(B)
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