130 Bible Verses about Casting Lots
Want to know what the Bible says about Casting Lots? Here are 130 Bible verses about Casting Lots from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Nehemiah 11:1 NIV
Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem. The rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten of them to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the remaining nine were to stay in their own towns.
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John 19:23-24 NIV
23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
24 “Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.”
This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said,
“They divided my clothes among them
and cast lots for my garment.”
and cast lots for my garment.”
So this is what the soldiers did.
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Numbers 33:54 NIV
Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.
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Joel 3:3 NIV
They cast lots for my people
and traded boys for prostitutes;
they sold girls for wine to drink.
and traded boys for prostitutes;
they sold girls for wine to drink.
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Joshua 18:6 NIV
After you have written descriptions of the seven parts of the land, bring them here to me and I will cast lots for you in the presence of the Lord our God.
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1 Chronicles 26:13 NIV
Lots were cast for each gate, according to their families, young and old alike.
225
Joshua 14:2 NIV
Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine and a half tribes, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
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1 Chronicles 26:13-14 NIV
13 Lots were cast for each gate, according to their families, young and old alike.
14 The lot for the East Gate fell to Shelemiah. Then lots were cast for his son Zechariah, a wise counselor, and the lot for the North Gate fell to him.
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1 Chronicles 25:8 NIV
Young and old alike, teacher as well as student, cast lots for their duties.
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Esther 9:24 NIV
For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the pur (that is, the lot ) for their ruin and destruction.
188
Numbers 36:2 NIV
They said, “When the Lord commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
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Nahum 3:10 NIV
Yet she was taken captive
and went into exile.
Her infants were dashed to pieces
at every street corner.
Lots were cast for her nobles,
and all her great men were put in chains.
and went into exile.
Her infants were dashed to pieces
at every street corner.
Lots were cast for her nobles,
and all her great men were put in chains.
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Micah 2:5 NIV
Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord
to divide the land by lot.
to divide the land by lot.
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1 Chronicles 6:65 NIV
From the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin they allotted the previously named towns.
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1 Samuel 14:41-42 NIV
41 Then Saul prayed to the Lord, the God of Israel, “Why have you not answered your servant today? If the fault is in me or my son Jonathan, respond with Urim, but if the men of Israel are at fault, respond with Thummim.” Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot, and the men were cleared. 42 Saul said, “Cast the lot between me and Jonathan my son.” And Jonathan was taken.
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Judges 20:9 NIV
But now this is what we’ll do to Gibeah: We’ll go up against it in the order decided by casting lots.
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Obadiah 1:11 NIV
On the day you stood aloof
while strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
while strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
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1 Samuel 10:20-21 NIV
20 When Samuel had all Israel come forward by tribes, the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot. 21 Then he brought forward the tribe of Benjamin, clan by clan, and Matri’s clan was taken. Finally Saul son of Kish was taken. But when they looked for him, he was not to be found.
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Joshua 7:14 NIV
“‘In the morning, present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe the Lord chooses shall come forward clan by clan; the clan the Lord chooses shall come forward family by family; and the family the Lord chooses shall come forward man by man.
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