Now the city [was] wide and large, and the people [were] few in it, and the houses were not built.

And God put [it] into my heart, and I gathered the nobles and the rulers and the people into companies; and I found a register of the company that came up first, and I found written in it as follows:

And if a matter shall be too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;

then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out [the matter] and report the judgment to you.

For there are set thrones for judgment, [even] thrones for the house of David.

And we cast lots for the office of wood-bearing, [we] the priests, and the Levites, and the people, to bring [wood] into the house of our God, according to the house of our families, at certain set times, year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law;

And Joshua cast the lot for them in Shiloh before the Lord.

And they cast lots for the small as well as for the great, for the several gates, according to their families.

All [evils] come upon the ungodly into their bosoms, but all good things [come] from the Lord.

And they prayed and said, "You, O Lord, knower of all hearts, show whom You have chosen of these two"

And now this is the thing which shall be done in Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot.

Moreover we will take ten men for a hundred for all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred for a thousand, and a thousand for ten thousand, to take provision, to cause them to come to Gibeah of Benjamin, to do to it according to all the abomination which they have done in Israel.

two hundred and eighty-four.

maintaining also the name of the holy city, and staying themselves on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is His name. The former things I have already declared;

Awake, awake, Zion; put on your strength, O Zion; and put on your glory, O Jerusalem the holy city; for the uncircumcised and unclean shall pass through you no more.

Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple,

and coming forth out of the tombs after His resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.