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: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
• Rev 21:17–21Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
• Rev 7:4–8I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
• Isa 54:12I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
• Rev 21:25Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),
• Ps 122:7Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.
• Ps 51:18Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
• Isa 60:18Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
• Num 2:2–32“The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses: at a distance from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp around it.”
• Neh 12:27At 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 giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.
• Ezra 9:9For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
• Luke 15:10Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
• Heb 1:14Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
• Acts 26:7which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
• Matt 18:10See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
• Luke 16:22The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

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