Revelation 21:12

The city has a great wall with twelve gates, twelve angels, and the names of Israel's twelve tribes. God's redeemed are rooted in his covenant people.

Cross-references · 16

• Ezek 48:31–34And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
• Rev 21:17–21And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
• Rev 7:4–8And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
• Isa 54:12And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
• Rev 21:25And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
• Ps 122:7Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
• Ps 51:18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
• Isa 60:18Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
• Num 2:2–32Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
• Neh 12:27And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
• Ezra 9:9For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
• Luke 15:10Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
• Heb 1:14Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
• Acts 26:7Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
• Matt 18:10Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
• Luke 16:22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

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