22 Bible Verses about Sitting In The Gateway

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

She realized that Shelah was now a grown man. She had not been allowed to marry him. So she decided to dress in something other than her widow's clothes and to cover her face with a veil. Then she sat outside the town of Enaim on the road to Timnah.

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.

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.

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.

I am going to call every family and kingdom from the north, says Jehovah. They will come, and they will set up their thrones at the entrance of Jerusalem's gates. They will attack all the walls around the city and all the cities of Judah.

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.

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.

They knew he was the one who begged at the Beautiful gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement because of what happened to him.

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.

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

The old men are no longer seated in the doorway. The music of the young men has come to an end.

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.

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.

The king sat in the gateway. The troops were told: The king is sitting in the gateway. So they went to the king. Meanwhile, Israel fled back to their homes.

When the virgins came together in the second house of the women, Mordecai took his seat in the gate of the king's house.

In those days, while Mordecai was seated at the king's gate two of the king's servants, Bigthan and Teresh, keepers of the gate, being angry, looked for a chance to attack King Ahasuerus.

Then on that day Haman went out full of joy and glad in heart. When he saw Mordecai in the king's gate and he did not get to his feet or give any sign of fear before him, Haman was full of wrath against Mordecai.

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

Then the king said to Haman: Go quickly, and take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who is seated at the king's gate. See that you do everything as you have said.

Mordecai came back to the king's gate. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.

When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square,