Judges 20:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot.

Cross References

Acts 1:26

And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was added to the eleven apostles.

Jonah 1:7

The sailors said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, so that we may know on whose account this calamity has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Proverbs 16:33

The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is the Lord’s alone.

Nehemiah 11:1

Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city Jerusalem, while nine-tenths remained in the other towns.

1 Chronicles 24:5

They organized them by lot, all alike, for there were officers of the sanctuary and officers of God among both the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.

Joshua 14:2

Their inheritance was by lot, as the Lord had commanded Moses for the nine and one-half tribes.

Judges 20:8

All the people got up as one, saying, “We will not any of us go to our tents, nor will any of us return to our houses.

Judges 20:10

We will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the troops who will go to repay Gibeah of Benjamin for all the disgrace that they have done in Israel.”