13 Bible Verses about Locks And Bars

For He has strengthened the bars of your gates;
He has blessed your sons within you.

“Your locks will be iron and bronze,
And according to your days, so will your leisurely walk be.

Then Ehud went out into the vestibule and shut the doors of the roof chamber behind him, and locked them.

Then he called his young man who attended him and said, “Now throw this woman out of my presence, and lock the door behind her.”

Now she had on a long-sleeved garment; for in this manner the virgin daughters of the king dressed themselves in robes. Then his attendant took her out and locked the door behind her.

saying, “We found the prison house locked quite securely and the guards standing at the doors; but when we had opened up, we found no one inside.”

The cities of the Negev have been locked up,
And there is no one to open them;
All Judah has been carried into exile,
Wholly carried into exile.

“A garden locked is my sister, my bride,
A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city,
And contentions are like the bars of a citadel.

The sword will whirl against their cities,
And will demolish their gate bars
And consume them because of their counsels.

“I will also break the gate bar of Damascus,
And cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven,
And him who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden;
So the people of Aram will go exiled to Kir,”
Says the Lord.

Now Samson lay until midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two posts and pulled them up along with the bars; then he put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain which is opposite Hebron.

Behold, your people are women in your midst!
The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies;
Fire consumes your gate bars.