Gates

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Deuteronomy 22:15 OT

  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 20:4 OT

  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…

• Ruth 4:1 OT

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

• 2 Samuel 15:2 OT

  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…

• Proverbs 22:22 OT

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

• Zechariah 8:16 OT

  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,

• Proverbs 8:3 OT

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

• Jeremiah 14:2 OT

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

• Jeremiah 22:2 OT

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

• 1 Kings 22:10 OT

  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 Chronicles 18:9 OT

  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.

• Jeremiah 38:7 OT

  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 Benjamin’s gate),

• Jeremiah 39:3 OT

  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.

• Deuteronomy 17:5 OT

  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.

• Jeremiah 20:2 OT

  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.

• Acts 7:58 NT

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

• Hebrews 13:12 NT

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

• Joshua 2:5 OT

  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 OT

  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.

• Nehemiah 13:19 OT

  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…

• 2 Kings 7:17 OT

  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.

• Nehemiah 13:22 OT

  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.

• 2 Kings 10:8 OT

  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.”

• Isaiah 3:26 OT

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