Psalms 147:13

God strengthens the city's gates and blesses its children. He provides security and fruitfulness for His people.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 128:3–6Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
• Ps 115:14–15May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children.
• Isa 44:3–5For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:
• Jer 30:19–20Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.
• Ps 144:12Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
• Ps 125:2As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.
• Lam 2:8–9Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
• Neh 12:30The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
• Neh 3:1–16Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.
• Ps 48:11–14Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of your judgments.
• Zech 8:3–5Yahweh says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’”
• Neh 7:1Now when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
• Ps 51:18Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
• Neh 6:1Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates)
• Lam 4:12The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
• Neh 7:3I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”
• Luke 19:42–44saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
• Dan 9:25Know therefore and discern, that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

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