Nehemiah 11:1

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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.

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  • 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.

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  • Neh 11:2-4
    3 verses
    85%

    2And the people thanked all the men that were willing to dwel at Hierusale.

    3These are the heades of the prouince that dwelt in Hierusalem, and in the cities of Iuda, euery one in his possession, and in their cities: they of Israel, the priestes, Leuites, the Nethinims, & the children of Solomons seruauntes.

    4And at Hierusalem dwelt certayne of the children of Iuda, and of Beniamin: Of the children of Iuda, Athaiah, the sonne of Uzzia, the sonne of Zacharia, the sonne of Amaria, the sonne of Saphatia, the sonne of Mahalaleel, of the children of Phares.

  • 1 Chr 9:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Euen the olde inhabiters that dwelt in their owne possessions and cities, the Israelites, the priestes, Leuites, and Nathenei.

    3And in Hierusalem dwelt of the children of Iuda, of the children of Beniamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasse:

  • 20As for the residue of Israel, of the priestes and Leuites, they were in al the cities of Iuda, euery one in his inheritaunce.

  • 70So the priestes, and the Leuites and certaine of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

  • 4As for the citie, it was large of roome, and great, but the people were fewe therein, and the houses were not builded.

  • 1And when the seuenth moneth came, and the childre of Israel were now in their cities, the people came together euen as one man to Hierusalem.

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    13And they cast lottes betweene the great and small, after the housholde of their fathers, for euery gate.

    14And the lot on the eastsyde fell vpon Selemiahu: And for Zachariahu his sonne (which was a wyfe counsailour) they cast lottes, and his lot came out toward the north.

  • 1 Chr 24:5-7
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    5And thus were they put in order by lot the one sort from the other: and so were there rulers in the sanctuarie and lordes before God, aswell of the sonnes of Eleazer, as of the sonnes of Ithamar.

    6And Semeia the sonne of Nathanael the scribe, of the kinred of the Leuites, wrote them before the king & the lordes, & before Zadoc the priest and Ahimelec the sonne of Abiathar, and before the auncient fathers of the priestes and Leuites, one principall housholde being reserued for Eleazar, and one for Ithamar.

    7And the first lot fell to Iehoiarib: and the seconde to Iedaia,

  • 73And the priestes and Leuites, the porters, and the singers, and the other of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities: And whe the seuenth moneth came, the children of Israel were in their cities.

  • 65And that by lot, out of the tribe of the children of Iuda, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Beniamin, these cities, whiche they called by their names.

  • Ezra 1:4-5
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    4And whosoeuer remayneth yet in any maner of place where he is a straunger, let the men of that place helpe him with siluer and golde, with good and cattaile, beside that which they willingly offer for the house of God that is at Hierusalem.

    5Then gat vp the principall fathers of Iuda and Beniamin, and the priestes and Leuites, and all they whose spirite God had raysed to go vp and to builde the house of the Lorde which is at Hierusalem.

  • 1 Chr 25:8-9
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    70%

    8And they cast lottes among them selues how they should waite, aswel for the small as for the great, for the scholler aswell as for the schoolemaister.

    9And the first lot in Asaph fell to Ioseph, the second to Gedaliahu with his brethren and sonnes, which men were twelue.

  • 9And they gaue out of the tribe of the children of Iuda, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities by name.

  • 11When thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the straungers caried away his substaunce, and straungers entred into his gates, and cast lottes vpon Hierusalem, euen thou wast as one of them.

  • 34And 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:

  • 34These were auncient fathers of the Leuites in their generations, & dwelt at Hierusalem.

  • 4And the lot came out for the kynred of the Caathites: the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Leuites, had geuen them by lot out of the tribe of Iuda, out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Beniamin, thirteene cities.

  • 28These were auncient fathers and captaynes in their kinredes, & these dwelt in Hierusalem.

  • 11Then reproued I the rulers, and sayd: Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

  • Josh 18:5-6
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    69%

    5And let them deuide it vnto them into seuen partes: And (Iuda shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Ioseph shall stande in their coastes on the north.)

    6Describe ye the lande therfore into seuen partes, and bryng the description hyther to me: and I shall cast lottes for you here before the Lord our God.

  • Ezra 10:7-9
    3 verses
    69%

    7And they caused a proclamation to go throughout Iuda & Hierusalem vnto al them of the captiuitie, that they shoulde gather them selues together vnto Hierusalem:

    8And that whosoeuer came not within three dayes, according to the deuice of the rulers and elders, all his substaunce should be forfayted, and he should be put out from the congregation of them of the captiuitie.

    9Then all the men of Iuda and Beniamin gathered them selues together vn- Hierusalem within three dayes, euen the twentith day of the nynth moneth: & all the people sate in the streete of the house of God, and trembled, because of this matter, and for the rayne.

  • 4And he bade the people that dwelt in Hierusalem, to geue a parte to the priestes and Leuites, that they might substancially applie them selues to the lawe of the Lorde.

  • 36And the Leuites had possession both in Iuda and in Beniamin.

  • 1When these thinges were done, the rulers came to me, and sayde: The people of Israel, and the priestes & Leuites are not separated from the people of the landes, as touching their abhominations: namely of the Chanaanites, Hethites, Pherezites, Iebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

  • 8Moreouer, in Hierusalem did Iehosaphat set of the Leuites, & of the priestes, and of the auncient fathers, ouer Israel in the iudgement and cause of the Lord: And they returned againe to Hierusale.

  • 31And these cast lottes next to their brethren the sonnes of Aaron in the presence of Dauid the king, and Zadoc, and Ahimelec, and the auncient fathers of the priestes & Leuites, euen the principall fathers, before their younger brethren. The singers are appoynted with their places and lottes.

  • 10The king of Hierusalem, one: the king of Hebron, one:

  • 19And to the children of Aaron the priestes whiche were in the fieldes and suburbes of their cities, citie by citie, the men whose names were expressed afore, shoulde geue portions, euen to all the males among the priestes, and to all the Leuites, according to their number.

  • 5And another thirde part shalbe by the kinges house, and another thirde part shalbe at the gate of the foundation: and al the people shalbe in the courtes of the house of the Lorde.

  • 11There shal men dwell, and there shal be no more destruction, but Hierusalem shalbe safely inhabited.

  • 10And Iosuah cast lottes for them in Silo before the Lorde: & there Iosuah diuided the lande vnto the children of Israel, to eche their portion.

  • 9But this shalbe it that we will do to Gibea: we will go vp by lot against it:

  • 17He hath cast the lot for them, and to those beastes hath his hande deuided it by the line: therfore those shall possesse it for euer, from generation to generation shall they dwell therin.

  • 2And they went about in Iuda, and gathered the Leuites out of all the cities of Iuda, & the auncient fathers of Israel, and they came to Hierusalem.

  • 7And Dauid dwelt in the castell Sion and therefore they called it the citie of Dauid.

  • 14The heads of the people were, Pharos the captayne of Moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,

  • 40And so stoode the two quyers of them that gaue thankes in the house of God, and I, & the halfe of the rulers with me.

  • 15And that thou shouldest take with thee siluer and golde which the king and his counsailers offer of their owne good wyll vnto the God of Israel, whose habitation is at Hierusalem:

  • 4And Dauid and all Israel went to Hierusalem (which is Iebus, where as were the Iebusites, the inhabiters of the lande.)