1 Chronicles 6:65
And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names. And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.
The verse stands in the first nine chapters of Chronicles, which are made up of lists and genealogies of the various tribes, with minutes of events and lists of names. It stands in the long record of names in 1 Chronicles 4-19 that preserves the records of God's children and keeps intact the integrity of the tribes. The careful preservation of the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in that record shows that Christ came through Judah. It is one of over five hundred verses in twelve chapters of 1 Chronicles that are nearly all names of persons, and one of more than fifteen hundred verses in the Bible that are simply names of persons and places, while the Old Testament has 23,556 verses and the New Testament has 7,957 verses for a total of 31,513 verses.
The verse records cities given by lot out of Judah and Simeon and Benjamin to the Levites, which are called by their names, and it illustrates that a lot could determine an allocation. In the verse, lot denotes the method or decision by which the cities were assigned from the territories of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. Lot means a means of determining a person's or group's portion, understood as Providence's determination rather than mere chance. Lot does not mean the region or inherited land itself, but the decision made by lot that determines a person's portion.
This use of lot for an allotted portion helps distinguish Daniel standing in his lot in the judgment from receiving a territory or inheritance. The verse is not an expressed precious promise to God's people, showing that not every verse is a promise, and a claim of 36,000 distinct promises is more than the number of verses.