Proverbs 18:18
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18 Casting the lot puts an end to disputes
and decides between powerful contenders.(A)
Proverbs 16:33
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33 The lot is cast into the lap,
but the decision is the Lord’s alone.
Nehemiah 11:1
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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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1 Chronicles 24:31
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31 These also cast lots corresponding to their kindred, the descendants of Aaron, in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of ancestral houses of the priests and of the Levites, the chief as well as the youngest brother.(A)
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1 Chronicles 6:63
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63 To the Merarites according to their families were allotted twelve towns out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.(A)
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1 Samuel 14:42
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42 Then Saul said, “Cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan.” And Jonathan was taken.
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1 Samuel 10:21-27
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21 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the family of the Matrites was taken by lot. Finally he brought the family of the Matrites near man by man,[a] and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found. 22 So they inquired again of the Lord, “Did the man come here?”[b] And the Lord said, “See, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”(A) 23 Then they ran and brought him from there. When he took his stand among the people, he was head and shoulders taller than any of them.(B) 24 Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one whom the Lord has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”(C)
25 Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people back to their homes.(D) 26 Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went warriors whose hearts God had touched.(E) 27 But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead.[c](F)
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Joshua 14:2
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2 Their inheritance was by lot, as the Lord had commanded Moses for the nine and one-half tribes.(A)
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