Verse 1

And the rulers of the people dwelt at Hierusalem: The other people also cast lottes, that among ten one part should go to Hierusalem into the holy citie to dwell, and nyne partes to be in the cities.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 48:2 : 2 For they are named of the holy citie, and are grounded vpon the God of Israel, whose name is the Lorde of hoastes.
  • Neh 11:18 : 18 All the Leuites in the holy citie, were two hundred foure score and foure.
  • Neh 10:34 : 34 And we cast the lot among the priestes, Leuites, and the people, for the offering of the wood, to be brought vnto the house of our God from yere to yere, after the houses of our fathers, that it might be brent at times appoynted vpon the aulter of the Lorde God, as it is written in the lawe:
  • Isa 52:1 : 1 Vp Sion, vp, take thy strength vnto thee, put on thyne honest rayment O Hierusalem, thou holy citie: for from this tyme foorth there shall no vncircumcised nor vncleane person come in thee.
  • Matt 4:5 : 5 Then the deuyll taketh hym vp into the holy citie, and setteth hym on a pinacle of the temple,
  • Matt 27:53 : 53 And went out of the graues, after his resurrection, and came into the holy citie, and appeared vnto many.
  • Acts 1:24 : 24 And they prayed, saying: Thou Lord which knowest the heartes of all men, shewe whether of these two thou haste chosen,
  • Deut 17:8-9 : 8 If there rise a matter to harde for thee in iudgement betweene blood and blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, and the matters come to strife within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee vp vnto the place whiche the Lorde thy God hath chosen, 9 And come vnto the priestes the Leuites, and vnto the iudge that shalbe in those dayes, and aske: and they shall shewe thee the sentence of iudgement.
  • Josh 18:10 : 10 And Iosuah cast lottes for them in Silo before the Lorde: & there Iosuah diuided the lande vnto the children of Israel, to eche their portion.
  • Judg 20:9-9 : 9 But this shalbe it that we will do to Gibea: we will go vp by lot against it: 10 And we will take ten men of the hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of the thousande, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch vitayle for the people, that they may do when they come to Gibea Beniamin, according to all the abhomination that they haue wrought in Israel.
  • 1 Chr 26:13 : 13 And they cast lottes betweene the great and small, after the housholde of their fathers, for euery gate.
  • Neh 7:4-5 : 4 As for the citie, it was large of roome, and great, but the people were fewe therein, and the houses were not builded. 5 And God gaue me in myne heart that I gathered together the principal men, and the officers, & the people, to number them: and I founde a register of the number of them which came vp before, and founde written therein,
  • Ps 122:5 : 5 For there is ordeyned the seate for iudgement: euen the seate of the house of Dauid.
  • Prov 16:33 : 33 The lottes are cast into the lappe: but the orderyng therof standeth all in the Lorde.