Verse 1

And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 48:2 : 2 For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
  • Neh 11:18 : 18 All the Levites in the holy town were two hundred and eighty-four.
  • Neh 10:34 : 34 And we, the priests and the Levites and the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is recorded in the law;
  • Isa 52:1 : 1 Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
  • Matt 4:5 : 5 Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,
  • Matt 27:53 : 53 And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.
  • Acts 1:24 : 24 And they made prayers and said, Lord, having knowledge of the hearts of all men, make clear which of these two has been marked out by you,
  • Deut 17:8-9 : 8 If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God; 9 And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:
  • Josh 18:10 : 10 And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by their divisions.
  • Judg 20:9-9 : 9 But this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by the decision of the Lord; 10 And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.
  • 1 Chr 26:13 : 13 And the families were taken by the decision of the Lord for every door; the small family had the same chance as the great.
  • Neh 7:4-5 : 4 Now the town was wide and great: but the people in it were only a small number, and the houses had not been put up. 5 And my God put it into my heart to get together the rulers and the chiefs and the people so that they might be listed by families. And I came across a record of the names of those who came up at the first, and in it I saw these words:
  • Ps 122:5 : 5 For there seats for the judges were placed, even the rulers' seats of the line of David.
  • Prov 16:33 : 33 A thing may be put to the decision of chance, but it comes about through the Lord.