Numbers 26:56

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.

by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.

Thus they were divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

They cast lots for their offices, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the student.

They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

Moses said to the children of Israel, “Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

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

The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since we are a numerous people, because Yahweh has blessed us so far?”

You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.

The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Judah.

The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.

The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.

The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.

The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.

The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.

They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” He struck them with blindness according to Elishah’s word.

Zadok his son, and Ahimaaz his son.

and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.

These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ households of the chief even as those of his younger brother.

His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers’ households, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.

of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;

Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me.

It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles.

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.