Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

The congregation

Bible References

Cast

Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
When He separated the sons of man,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the sons of Israel.
Joshua 18:4
Provide for yourselves three men from each tribe that I may send them, and that they may arise and walk through the land and write a description of it according to their inheritance; then they shall return to me.
Psalm 16:6
The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;
Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.
Hosea 9:3
They will not remain in the Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to Egypt,
And in Assyria they will eat unclean food.

The congregation

Deuteronomy 23:2
No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord.
Nehemiah 7:61
These were they who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses or their descendants, whether they were of Israel:

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