GATES

Passages on this topic · 62

• Genesis 19:1

  The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

• Genesis 23:10

  Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

• Genesis 23:16

  Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

• Genesis 28:17

  He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”

• Genesis 34:20

  Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

• Deuteronomy 3:5

  All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides a great many villages without walls.

• Deuteronomy 16:18

  You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

• Deuteronomy 17:5

  then you shall bring out that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.

• Deuteronomy 21:19

  then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.

• Deuteronomy 22:15

  then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

• Joshua 2:5

  About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”

• Joshua 2:7

  The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

• Joshua 6:26

  Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before Yahweh, who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates.”

• Joshua 20:4

  He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

• Ruth 4:1

  Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. He said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He turned aside, and sat down.

• 1 Samuel 4:18

  When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

• 1 Samuel 23:7

  Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”

• 2 Samuel 15:2

  Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

• 2 Samuel 18:24

  Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

• 1 Kings 22:10

  Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

• 2 Kings 7:17

  The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate; and the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

• 2 Kings 10:8

  A messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”

• 2 Chronicles 8:5

  Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

• 2 Chronicles 18:9

  Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah each sat on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

• Nehemiah 1:3

  They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

• Nehemiah 13:19

  It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.

• Nehemiah 13:22

  I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

• Job 38:17

  Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

• Psalms 9:13

  Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

• Psalms 24:7

  Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

• Psalms 69:12

  Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

• Psalms 107:16

  For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.

• Psalms 118:19

  Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.

• Psalms 118:20

  This is the gate of Yahweh; the righteous will enter into it.

• Proverbs 1:21

  She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

• Proverbs 8:3

  Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:

• Proverbs 22:22

  Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

• Isaiah 3:26

  Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

• Isaiah 26:2

  Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.

• Isaiah 38:10

  I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

• Isaiah 45:1

  Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

• Isaiah 45:2

  “I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.

• Isaiah 60:11

  Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.

• Jeremiah 14:2

  “Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

• Jeremiah 17:19

  Thus said Yahweh to me: “Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

• Jeremiah 17:20

  and tell them, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

• Jeremiah 20:2

  Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 22:2

  ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.

• Jeremiah 38:7

  Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),

• Jeremiah 39:3

  all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

• Ezekiel 41:24

  The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other.

• Zechariah 8:16

  These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

• Matthew 7:13

  “Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

• Matthew 16:18

  I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

• Acts 7:58

  They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

• Acts 12:10

  When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

• Acts 14:13

  The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.

• Hebrews 13:12

  Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

• Revelation 21:12

  having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

• Revelation 21:13

  On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

• Revelation 21:21

  The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

• Revelation 21:25

  Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),