Gates

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Isaiah 22:7 OT

  Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

• Ezekiel 21:15 OT

  I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter.

• Ezekiel 21:22 OT

  In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts.

• 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.

• 2 Samuel 18:4 OT

  The king said to them, “I will do what seems best to you.” The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

• 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.”

• Lamentations 2:9 OT

  Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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,

• Lamentations 1:4 OT

  The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

• Psalms 118:19 OT

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

• Psalms 118:20 OT

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

• 2 Kings 18:16 OT

  At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

• 2 Chronicles 8:14 OT

  He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers…

• 2 Chronicles 23:4 OT

  This is the thing that you must do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds.

• 1 Chronicles 26:13-19 OT

  They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate. The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. To…

• 2 Chronicles 24:8 OT

  So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of Yahweh’s house.

• Mark 12:41 NT

  Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.

• Psalms 100:4 OT

  Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

• Jeremiah 37:13 OT

  When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

• 2 Chronicles 33:14 OT

  Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in…

• Nehemiah 3:3 OT

  The sons of Hassenaah built the fish gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.