Proverbs 16:33

the lap from the folds of which it was drawn or shaken out.

disposing Lit. judgement. The decision, which when appealed to as arbiter it pronounces, is not its own but Jehovah's.

The religion of the O.T. incorporated into itself the use of the lot as it did many other common customs (see Joshua 7:14-18; 1 Samuel 14:42). With the gift of Pentecost, however, the religious use of it appears to have ceased. No mention is found of it in the N.T. after Acts 1:26.