Nehemiah 11:1
The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem, the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.
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In Context
2The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
Cross References
Joshua 18:10Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
1 Chronicles 8:28These were heads of fathers’ households throughout their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 9:2Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
Nehemiah 4:22Likewise at the same time I said to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labour in the day.”
Nehemiah 10:34We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, 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 LORD our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;
Psalms 122:5For there are set thrones for judgement, the thrones of David’s house.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 11:1
Jerusalem was walled round, but it was not as yet fully inhabited, and therefore was weak and despicable. Nehemiah's next care is to bring people into it; of that we have here an account. I. The methods taken to replenish it, ver. 1, 2 . II. The principal persons that resided there, of Judah and Benjamin ( ver. 3-9 ), of the priests and Levites, ver. 10-19 . III. The several cities and villages of Judah and Benjamin that were peopled by the rest of their families, ver. 20-36 . Read the whole commentary →