Now the city was broad and large, but the people in it were few, and the houses were not rebuilt.

Then my God put it into my heart to gather the nobles, the rulers, and the people, that they might be registered by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of those who had come up in the first return, and found written in it:

If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood, between dispute and dispute, or between stroke and stroke, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Jehovah your God chooses.

And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is there in those days, and inquire; and they shall declare to you the judgment of the case.

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

We cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for bringing the wood offering into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at the appointed times year by year, to burn on the altar of Jehovah our God as it is written in the Law.

And Joshua cast lots for them at Shiloh before Jehovah, and there Joshua distributed the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

And they cast lots for each gate, the small and the great, according to their father's house.

The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposition of it is from Jehovah.

And they prayed and said, You, O Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which of these two You have chosen

but now this is the thing which we shall do to Gibeah: We shall go up against it by lot.

We shall take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to carry provisions for the people, that when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may repay all the disgrace that they have done in Israel.

All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four.

for they name themselves as being of the holy city, and rest themselves on the God of Israel; Jehovah of Hosts is His name):

Awake! Awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the Holy City. For never again shall the uncircumcised and unclean come into you.

Then the devil takes Him up into the holy city, and sets Him on the wing of the temple,

and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and were manifest to many.