Verse 1

And the rulers of the people dwelt in Ierusalem: the other people also cast lottes, to bring one out of ten to dwel in Ierusalem the holy citie, and nine partes to be in the cities.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 48:2 : 2 For they are called of the holy citie, & staie themselues vpon the God of Israel, whose Name is the Lord of hostes.
  • Neh 11:18 : 18 All the Leuites in the holy citie were two hundreth foure score and foure.
  • Neh 10:34 : 34 We cast also lottes for the offering of the wood, euen the Priestes, the Leuites and the people to bring it into the house of our God, by the house of our fathers, yeerely at the times appointed, to burne it vpon the altar of the Lorde our God, as it is written in the Lawe,
  • Isa 52:1 : 1 Arise, arise: put on thy strength, O Zion: put on thy garments of thy beautie, O Ierusalem, the holy citie: for hencefoorth there shall no more come into thee the vncircumcised and the vncleane.
  • Matt 4:5 : 5 Then the deuil tooke him vp into the holy Citie, and set him on a pinacle of the temple,
  • Matt 27:53 : 53 And came out of the graues after his resurrection, and went into the holy citie, and appeared vnto many.
  • Acts 1:24 : 24 And they praied, saying, Thou Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shewe whether of these two thou hast chosen,
  • Deut 17:8-9 : 8 If there rise a matter too harde for thee in iudgemet betweene blood & blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, in the matters of controuersie within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and goe vp vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse, 9 And thou shalt come vnto the Priestes of the Leuites, and vnto the iudge that shall be in those daies, and aske, and they shall shewe thee the sentence of iudgement,
  • Josh 18:10 : 10 Then Ioshua cast lottes for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there Ioshua deuided the land vnto the children of Israel, according to their portions:
  • Judg 20:9-9 : 9 But now this is that thing which we will do to Gibeah: we wil goe vp by lot against it, 10 And we wil take ten men of the hundreth throughout al the tribes of Israel, & an hundreth of the thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand to bring vitaile for the people that they may do (when they come to Gibeah of Beniamin) according to all the villeny, that it hath done in Israel.
  • 1 Chr 26:13 : 13 And they cast lottes both small and great for the house of their fathers, for euery gate.
  • Neh 7:4-5 : 4 Nowe the citie was large and great, but the people were few therein, and the houses were not buylded. 5 And my God put into mine heart, and I gathered the princes, and the rulers, and the people, to count their genealogies: and I found a booke of the genealogie of them, which came vp at the first, and found written therein,
  • Ps 122:5 : 5 For there are thrones set for iudgement, euen the thrones of the house of Dauid.
  • Prov 16:33 : 33 The lot is cast into the lappe: but the whole disposition thereof is of the Lord.