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Bible Verses about “casting lots

Found 19 verses (ordered by relevance) about “casting lots” in the KJV version of the Bible

Proverbs 16:33
117 votes

¶ The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof [is] of the LORD.

Luke 23:34
68 votes

Then said Jesus, ‹Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.› And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

Proverbs 18:18
43 votes

¶ The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

Jonah 1:7
29 votes

And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil [is] upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

Psalms 22:18
16 votes

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

Acts 1:26
16 votes

And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

Luke 1:9
14 votes

According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

1 Samuel 14:42
7 votes

And Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.

Leviticus 16:8
5 votes

And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

Joshua 18:10
5 votes

And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

Matthew 27:35
5 votes

And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.

Mark 15:24
5 votes

And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.

John 19:24
5 votes

They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

Leviticus 16:9
2 votes

And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him [for] a sin offering.

Leviticus 16:10
2 votes

But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, [and] to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

Numbers 26:55
2 votes

Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

1 Chronicles 24:5
2 votes

Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors [of the house] of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

Nehemiah 10:34
2 votes

And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring [it] into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as [it is] written in the law:

Esther 3:7
2 votes

¶ In the first month, that [is], the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that [is], the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, [to] the twelfth [month], that [is], the month Adar.