Gates

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Deuteronomy 3:5 OT

  All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls.

• Joshua 6:26 OT

  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…

• 1 Samuel 23:7 OT

  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 18:24 OT

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 8:5 OT

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

• Acts 12:10 NT

  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.

• Nehemiah 1:3 OT

  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.”

• Psalms 107:16 OT

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

• Isaiah 45:2 OT

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

• Isaiah 45:1 OT

  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:

• Ezekiel 41:24 OT

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

• Genesis 19:1 OT

  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,

• 1 Samuel 4:18 OT

  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.

• Psalms 69:12 OT

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

• Proverbs 1:21 OT

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

• Jeremiah 17:19 OT

  Yahweh said this 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 OT

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

• Acts 14:13 NT

  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.

• Nehemiah 8:1-18 OT

  All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel. Ezra the priest…

• Genesis 23:10 OT

  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 OT

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

• Genesis 34:20 OT

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

• Deuteronomy 16:18 OT

  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 21:19 OT

  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.