1 Now the leaders of the people hlived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people icast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem jthe holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns.
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1 Chronicles 9:3
And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem:
Nehemiah 10:34
We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.
Nehemiah 11:18
All the Levites in the holy city were 284.
Isaiah 48:2
For they call themselves after the holy city,
and stay themselves on the God of Israel;
the LORD of hosts is his name.
Isaiah 52:1
Awake, awake,
put on your strength, O Zion;
put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city;
for there shall no more come into you
the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Matthew 4:5
Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple
Matthew 27:53
and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
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