98 Bible Verses about Gates

He shattered bronze gates and cut iron bars in two.

I will go ahead of you, Cyrus. I will smooth out the rough places. I will break down the copper doors and cut through the iron bars.

He shattered bronze gates and cut iron bars in two.

I will go ahead of you, Cyrus. I will smooth out the rough places. I will break down the copper doors and cut through the iron bars.

King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah, son of Joash and grandson of Ahaziah of Judah, at Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem. He tore down a six hundred foot section of the wall around Jerusalem from Ephraim Gate to Corner Gate.

Jehoash king of Israel made Amaziah king of Judah son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, prisoner at Bethshemesh. He went to Jerusalem and had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the Gate of Ephraim to the gate in the angle, six hundred feet.

Over the Gate of Ephraim and by the old door and the fish door and the tower of Hananel and the tower of Hammeah, as far as the Sheep Gate: and at the doorway of the watchmen they came to a stop.

Hanun and the people of Zanoah were working on the doorway of the valley. They put it up and put up its doors, with their locks and rods, and fifteen hundred feet of the wall as far as the doorway where the waste material was placed.

Now the Nethinim were living in the Ophel, as far as the place facing the water doorway to the east, and the tower that comes out.

His father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every city Jehovah your God gives you. They are to judge the people fairly.

When you flee to one of these cities you must go to the place of judgment at the entrance to the city, and explain to the leaders what happened. Then they will let you into the city and give you a place to live in, so that you can stay there.

The girl's father and her mother must present evidence of the girl's virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

Boaz went to the public place in the town and sat down. When the kinsman-redeemer came along, the one he had mentioned, Boaz said: Come here, and sit down. He came and was seated.

A man who had been crippled from birth was carried to the gate of the temple called Beautiful. There he begged for handouts from those who entered the temple.

This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'The east gate of the inner courtyard must be closed during the six working days, but it must be opened on the weekly day of worship. It must also be opened on the New Moon Festival.

But he did not take away the high places. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He was the builder of the higher gate of the Temple of Jehovah.

When the leaders of Judah heard what had happened, they hurried from the royal palace to the Temple and took their places at the New Gate.

Do not rob the poor because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate. Jehovah will plead their cause and take the life of those who rob them.

Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every city Jehovah your God gives you. They are to judge the people fairly.

He would rise early in the morning and stand by the road at the city gate. When someone came there with a dispute that he wanted the king to settle, Absalom would call him over and ask him where he was from. After the man told him what tribe he was from,

That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there as they arrived. When he saw them, he got up to greet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed low to the ground.

When the man mentioned the Ark of God Eli fell backward from his seat beside the gate. He was so old and fat that the fall broke his neck and he died. He was a leader in Israel for forty years.

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

She calls in the streets, in the opening of the gates: in the city she utters her words. She says:

Jehovah said to me: Go and stand in the public gate, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, as well as in all the gates of Jerusalem. Say to them: Listen to the word of Jehovah, kings of Judah, and all Judah and all inhabitants of Jerusalem who come in through these gates:

Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that preserves truth.

Lift your heads, you gates. Be lifted up, you ancient doors, so that the king of glory will come in.

Enter through the narrow gate, since the gate to destruction is wide and the road that leads to destruction is wide and many enter through it.

He was filled with reverence. He said: This is an awesome place! Certainly, this is the house of God and the gateway to the heavens!

Open the temple gate of righteousness to me and I will go in and give thanks to Jehovah! This is the gate of Jehovah; only the righteous can come in.

He also rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon into cities fortified with walls, double-door gates, and bars.

All of these cities were fortified with high walls and double-door gates with bars across the gates. We also captured a large number of unwalled villages.

Joshua pronounced an oath at that time, saying: Cursed be the man before Jehovah, that rises up and builds this city Jericho. He will lay the foundation at the cost of his firstborn. He will set up the gates at the cost of his youngest son.

When Saul was told that David went to Keilah, Saul said: God has delivered him into my hands. He has trapped himself by going into a city which has a gate with a double door held shut by a bar.

David was sitting between the two gates. The watchman walked along the roof of the gate by the wall. He looked at the man running alone.

Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of Jehovah.

They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet. His name was Saul.

Bring that man or woman who has done this evil deed out to your gates. Stone the man or the woman to death.

Jesus suffered outside the gate that he might sanctify the people through his own blood.

They took Jesus bearing his own stake to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.

Jesus suffered outside the gate that he might sanctify the people through his own blood.

When Moses had said this to the people of Israel, they took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death. The people of Israel did what Jehovah commanded Moses.

There was war in the land when the Israelites chose new gods. Of the forty thousand men in Israel, did anyone carry shield or spear?

Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the city gates.

that their hearts may melt (lose their courage), and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made for striking like lightning. It is wrapped up in readiness for slaughter.

She calls in the streets, in the opening of the gates: in the city she utters her words. She says:

Ephron was sitting with the other Hittites at the meeting place at the city gate. He answered in the hearing of everyone there:

She cries out at the gates, at the entrance by the doors:

Judah mourns and its gates collapse. The people of Judah are filled with bereavement as they sit on the ground. Their cry goes up from Jerusalem.

Listen to the word of Jehovah, you officials, you people who come into these gates, and you, king of Judah, the one sitting on David's throne.

As Solomon's father David had directed, he set up the divisions of priests for their service and the divisions of Levites for their appointed places. The Levites were to lead in praising Jehovah and to serve beside the priests by doing whatever needed to be done each day. Solomon also set up divisions of doorkeepers at every gate because this was what David, the man of God, had commanded.

You must do this: One third of you, the priests and Levites who are on duty on the day of worship, must guard the gates.

Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch (officer) who worked in the royal palace, heard that they had put me in the well. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate.

They dressed in their royal robes and sat on their thrones at the threshing place near the gate of Samaria. The two kings listened to all the prophets prophesy in front of them.

The two kings, dressed in their royal robes, sat on their thrones at the threshing place just outside the gate of Samaria. All the prophets were prophesying in front of them.

When Jerusalem was captured, all the high officials of the king of Babylon came and took their places at the Middle Gate, including Nergal Sharezer, Samgar Nebo, Sarsechim, and another Nergal Sharezer.

They seized her and took her to the palace. There at the Horse Gate they killed her.

Further on, past the Horse Gate, the priests were at work, every one opposite his house.

Uzziah strengthened the fortifications of Jerusalem. He built towers at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and where the wall turned.

I went in the dark through the gateway of the valley past the Fountain of the Snake (Serpent's Well) as far as the place where waste material was stored. From there I viewed the broken down walls of Jerusalem and the gateways that were burned with fire.

Then Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon Spring in the valley to the entrance of Fish Gate. He made the wall go around the Ophel. He built it very high. He put army commanders in every fortified city in Judah.

The sons of Hassenaah were the builders of the fish doorway. They put its boards in place and put up its doors, with their locks and rods.

The two kings, dressed in their royal robes, sat on their thrones at the threshing place just outside the gate of Samaria. All the prophets were prophesying in front of them.

When Jerusalem was captured, all the high officials of the king of Babylon came and took their places at the Middle Gate, including Nergal Sharezer, Samgar Nebo, Sarsechim, and another Nergal Sharezer.

He is to bring the rest of the bull to a clean place outside the camp where the ashes are poured out. There he will burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the Holy Place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp. Jesus suffered outside the gate that he might sanctify the people through his own blood. Let us therefore go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of Jehovah.

Bring that man or woman who has done this evil deed out to your gates. Stone the man or the woman to death.

Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.

Give her of the fruit of her hands. Let her own works praise her in the gates.

They said to me: The small band of Jews now living there in the land is in deep trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.

Her gates have gone down into the earth. He destroyed her locks and bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where there is no law. Her prophets have had no vision from Jehovah.

He sat down near the collection boxes and observed how the crowd dropped money into the boxes. Many that were rich dropped in much.

The king issued an order. They made a box and placed it outside the gate of Jehovah's Temple.

When he came to Benjamin Gate, the captain of the guard there, whose name was Irijah, son of Shelemiah and grandson of Hananiah, arrested the prophet Jeremiah. He said: You are deserting to the Babylonians!

Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of Jehovah.

And Malchijah, the son of Rechab, the ruler of the division of Beth-haccherem, made good the repair of the doorway with their locks and rods.

Then I made the rulers of Judah come up on the wall, and I put in position two great bands of them who gave praise, walking in ordered lines. One went to the right on the wall toward the gateway where the waste was put.

She calls in the streets, in the opening of the gates: in the city she utters her words. She says:

Jehovah said to me: Go and stand in the public gate, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, as well as in all the gates of Jerusalem.

Joiada, the son of Paseah, and Meshullam, the son of Besodeiah, repaired the old doorway. They put its boards in place and put up its doors, with their locks and rods.

Over the Gate of Ephraim and by the old door and the fish door and the tower of Hananel and the tower of Hammeah, as far as the Sheep Gate: and at the doorway of the watchmen they came to a stop.

Abner arrived in Hebron. Joab took him aside at the gate, as though he wanted to speak privately with him. There he stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner was murdered because he had killed Joab's brother Asahel.

Hamor and his son Shechem went to their city gate to speak to the men of their city. They said:

Ephron was sitting with the other Hittites at the meeting place at the city gate. He answered in the hearing of everyone there:

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.

He read it in the wide place in front of the Water Gate from early morning till the middle of the day. Everyone who could understand it, men and women alike were able to listen to it. All the people got to hear the Book of the Law.

Now the Nethinim were living in the Ophel, as far as the place facing the water doorway to the east, and the tower that comes out.

When the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the gate to be shut and not to be open again until after the Sabbath. I put some of my servants by the gate so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day.

When it was dark and they shut the gate the men went out. I do not know where they went. Pursue them quickly and you will overtake them.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courtyard with praise: thank him and bless his name.

Open the temple gate of righteousness to me and I will go in and give thanks to Jehovah!

Elisha answered: Hear the word of Jehovah: 'By this time tomorrow you will be able to buy in Samaria ten pounds of the best wheat or twenty pounds of barley for one piece of silver.'

Elisha told the king that by that time the following day ten pounds of the best wheat or twenty pounds of barley would be sold in Samaria for one piece of silver.

He shattered bronze gates and cut iron bars in two.

I will go ahead of you, Cyrus. I will smooth out the rough places. I will break down the copper doors and cut through the iron bars.

He shattered bronze gates and cut iron bars in two.

I will go ahead of you, Cyrus. I will smooth out the rough places. I will break down the copper doors and cut through the iron bars.

The high priest Eliashib worked with his brother priest to rebuild the Sheep Gateway. They made it holy and put its doors in position. They sanctified everything as far as the tower of Hammeah including to the tower of Hananel.

There is a pool by the sheep-market gate at Jerusalem. It is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethzatha. It has five porches (colonnades).

A poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, used to be brought to the rich man's door.

When she recognized Peter's voice she was so overjoyed she ran back into the house to tell others he was there. She forgot to open the door for him.

Lots were cast for each gate, according to their families, young and old alike. The lot for the East Gate fell to Shelemiah. Then lots were cast for his son Zechariah, a wise counselor, and the lot for the North Gate fell to him. The lot for the South Gate fell to Obed-Edom, and the lot for the storehouse fell to his sons. read more.
The lots for the West Gate and the Shalleketh Gate on the upper road fell to Shuppim and Hosah. Guard was alongside of guard: There were six Levites a day on the east, four a day on the north, four a day on the south and two at a time at the storehouse. As for the court to the west, there were four at the road and two at the court itself. These were the divisions of the gatekeepers who were descendants of Korah and Merari.

His children are far from help. They are crushed at the court of justice at the city gate. No one is there to rescue them.

God will destroy those who slander others. He will destroy those who prevent the punishment of criminals and those who tell lies to keep honest people from getting justice.

When the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the gate to be shut and not to be open again until after the Sabbath. I put some of my servants by the gate so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day.

I gave the Levites orders to make themselves clean and come and keep the gates and make the Sabbath holy. Keep this in mind to my credit, O my God, and have mercy on me, for great is your mercy.

The king of Israel put the city gate under the command of the officer who was his personal attendant. The officer was trampled to death there by the people and died, as Elisha had predicted when the king went to see him.

This is WHAT JEHOVAH SAYS ABOUT CYRUS, his anointed one: I have held him by his right hand so he could conquer the nations ahead of him; that he could strip kings of their power, and open doors ahead of him so that the gates would not be shut.

Each of the doors were double doors that swung open.

He shattered bronze gates and cut iron bars in two.

I will go ahead of you, Cyrus. I will smooth out the rough places. I will break down the copper doors and cut through the iron bars.

Be merciful to me, O Jehovah! See the sufferings my enemies cause me! Rescue me from death, O Jehovah.

Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

I thought that in the prime of my life I would go down to the gates of the grave and be robbed of the rest of my life.

Uzziah strengthened the fortifications of Jerusalem. He built towers at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and where the wall turned.

The city had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on each gate, the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each individual gate was one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, as transparent glass.

Its gates will not close in the daytime and there will be no night there.

He had a dream in which he saw a stairway set up on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven. He saw the angels of God going up and coming down on it. Jehovah was standing above the stairway. He proclaimed: I am Jehovah, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give the land on which you are lying to you and your descendants. Your descendants will be like the dust on the earth. You will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. Every family on earth will be blessed through you and through your descendants. read more.
Remember, I am with you. I will watch over you wherever you go. I will also bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I do what I have promised you. Jacob woke up from his sleep and said: Truly, Jehovah is in this place, and I did not know it! He was filled with reverence. He said: This is an awesome place! Certainly, this is the house of God and the gateway to the heavens!

The roads to Zion are sad. No one comes to the holy meeting. All her doorways are desolate. Her priests are sighing out of sorrow. Her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

Over the Gate of Ephraim and by the old door and the fish door and the tower of Hananel and the tower of Hammeah, as far as the Sheep Gate: and at the doorway of the watchmen they came to a stop.

You are Peter (Greek: petros: piece of rock), and on this rock-mass (Greek: petra: mass of rock) (referring to Jesus) I will build my congregation. The entrance to the grave (Greek: Hades) will not have power to stop it.

Hezekiah had the gold from the doors of Jehovah's Temple and from the doorposts plated by him. He stripped it off and gave it to the king of Assyria.

After him Malchijah, one of the gold-workers to the Nethinim and the traders, made good the wall opposite the doorway of Hammiphkad and as far as the way up to the angle.

And Shallun, the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the division of Mizpah, made good the doorway of the fountain, building it up and covering it and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods, with the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, as far as the steps which go down from the town of David.

I will do what you think best, the king answered. Then he stood by the side of the gate as his men marched out in units of a thousand and of a hundred.

The divination (omens) will indicate that he should go to the right, to Jerusalem. So he will set up his battering rams there, and give the order to kill. He will raise a battle cry and aim the battering rams against the city gates. He will put up ramps and set up blockades (siege walls).

She calls in the streets, in the opening of the gates: in the city she utters her words. She says:

He went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the town, he saw a widow woman gathering sticks. He said to her: Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink?

Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way to life. Only a few put forth the effort. Yes, only a few people enter the narrow gate.

Enter through the narrow gate, since the gate to destruction is wide and the road that leads to destruction is wide and many enter through it.

Open the temple gate of righteousness to me and I will go in and give thanks to Jehovah!

I thought that in the prime of my life I would go down to the gates of the grave and be robbed of the rest of my life.

This is the gate of Jehovah; only the righteous can come in.

That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there as they arrived. When he saw them, he got up to greet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed low to the ground.

The king of Israel put the city gate under the command of the officer who was his personal attendant. The officer was trampled to death there by the people and died, as Elisha had predicted when the king went to see him.

Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said: Who is on Jehovah's side? Come to me. All the sons of Levi came to him.

Pass through! Pass through the gates! Prepare a way for the people! Build up! Build up the highway! Clear away the stones! Raise a flag (standard) for the people!

But all this is nothing to me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew seated by the king's gate.

Ephron was sitting with the other Hittites at the meeting place at the city gate. He answered in the hearing of everyone there:

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.

This is WHAT JEHOVAH SAYS ABOUT CYRUS, his anointed one: I have held him by his right hand so he could conquer the nations ahead of him; that he could strip kings of their power, and open doors ahead of him so that the gates would not be shut.

Then the priest of Jupiter whose temple was there in the city, brought cattle and garlands to the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

They went past the first and second guard to the Iron Gate that leads to the city. The gate opened and went out on the street. The angel then departed from him.

They went past the first and second guard to the Iron Gate that leads to the city. The gate opened and went out on the street. The angel then departed from him.

I am the door. If any man enters through me he will be saved. He will go in and out and find pasture.

Open the temple gate of righteousness to me and I will go in and give thanks to Jehovah!

Your gates will always be open. They will never be closed day or night so that people may bring you the wealth of the nations. Even their kings are led as prisoners.

I thought that in the prime of my life I would go down to the gates of the grave and be robbed of the rest of my life.

The gates of the rivers are opened and the palace is dissolved.

When it was dark and they shut the gate the men went out. I do not know where they went. Pursue them quickly and you will overtake them.

The men pursued them by the road to Jordan to the fords. As soon the pursuers went out they shut the gate.

A man who had been crippled from birth was carried to the gate of the temple called Beautiful. There he begged for handouts from those who entered the temple.

A man who had been crippled from birth was carried to the gate of the temple called Beautiful. There he begged for handouts from those who entered the temple.

You are Peter (Greek: petros: piece of rock), and on this rock-mass (Greek: petra: mass of rock) (referring to Jesus) I will build my congregation. The entrance to the grave (Greek: Hades) will not have power to stop it.

Her (Zion's) gates will lament and mourn and she will sit on the ground deserted.

Boaz went to the public place in the town and sat down. When the kinsman-redeemer came along, the one he had mentioned, Boaz said: Come here, and sit down. He came and was seated.

A man who had been crippled from birth was carried to the gate of the temple called Beautiful. There he begged for handouts from those who entered the temple.

Jehu was informed that the heads of Ahab's descendants had been brought. He ordered them to be piled up in two heaps at the city gate and left there until the following morning.

Hamor and his son Shechem went to their city gate to speak to the men of their city. They said:

Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of Jehovah.

Then the priest of Jupiter whose temple was there in the city, brought cattle and garlands to the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

When the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the gate to be shut and not to be open again until after the Sabbath. I put some of my servants by the gate so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day.

They went past the first and second guard to the Iron Gate that leads to the city. The gate opened and went out on the street. The angel then departed from him.

They said to me: The small band of Jews now living there in the land is in deep trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.

They went past the first and second guard to the Iron Gate that leads to the city. The gate opened and went out on the street. The angel then departed from him.