Verse 1

And the heads of the people dwell in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people have caused to fall lots to bring in one out of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the cities,

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 48:2 : 2 For from the Holy City they have been called, And on the God of Israel been supported, Jehovah of Hosts `is' His name.
  • Neh 11:18 : 18 All the Levites, in the holy city, `are' two hundred eighty and four.
  • Neh 10:34 : 34 And the lots we have caused to fall for the offering of wood, `among' the priests, the Levites, and the people, to bring in to the house of our God, by the house of our fathers, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law,
  • Isa 52:1 : 1 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, Put on the garments of thy beauty, Jerusalem -- the Holy City; For enter no more into thee again, Do the uncircumcised and unclean.
  • Matt 4:5 : 5 Then doth the Devil take him to the `holy' city, and doth set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
  • Matt 27:53 : 53 and having come forth out of the tombs after his rising, they went into the holy city, and appeared to many.
  • Acts 1:24 : 24 and having prayed, they said, `Thou, Lord, who art knowing the heart of all, shew which one thou didst choose of these two
  • Deut 17:8-9 : 8 `When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke -- matters of strife within thy gates -- then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix, 9 and hast come in unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge who is in those days, and hast inquired, and they have declared to thee the word of judgment,
  • Josh 18:10 : 10 And Joshua casteth for them a lot in Shiloh before Jehovah, and there Joshua apportioneth the land to the sons of Israel, according to their divisions.
  • Judg 20:9-9 : 9 and now, this `is' the thing which we do to Gibeah -- against it by lot! 10 and we have taken ten men of a hundred, of all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of a myriad, to receive provision for the people, to do, at their coming to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly which it hath done in Israel.'
  • 1 Chr 26:13 : 13 and they cause to fall lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for gate and gate.
  • Neh 7:4-5 : 4 And the city `is' broad on both sides, and great, and the people `are' few in its midst, and there are no houses builded; 5 and my God putteth it unto my heart, and I gather the freeman, and the prefects, and the people, for the genealogy, and I find a book of the genealogy of those coming up at the beginning, and I find written in it: --
  • Ps 122:5 : 5 For there have sat thrones of judgment, Thrones of the house of David.
  • Prov 16:33 : 33 Into the centre is the lot cast, And from Jehovah `is' all its judgment!