'Bars' in the Bible

"You are to make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards on one side of the tent,

five bars for the boards on the second side of the tent, and five bars for the boards on the back side of the tent to the west.

You are to overlay the boards with gold, and you are to make gold rings for them as holders for the bars, and you are to overlay the bars with gold.

the tent, its tent, its covering, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets,

Then he made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards on one side of the tent,

five bars for the boards on the second side of the tent, and five bars for the boards on the back side of the tent to the west.

He overlaid the boards with gold, and made gold rings for them as holders for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.

They brought to Moses the tent, all its furnishings, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

Moses set up the tent. He installed its sockets and set its boards in place. He inserted its bars and set up its pillars.

The duties of the caretakers from the descendants of Merari included the boards of the tent, its bars, crossbars, sockets, all its utensils for their services,

This is to be their area of responsibility to carry out with respect to their service at the Tent of Meeting: the board of the tent, its bars, its crossbars, its sockets,

All of these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars. Furthermore, there were very many unwalled regions.

Meanwhile, Samson had sex until midnight, then at midnight he got up, grabbed the doors, the two door posts, and the bars of the city gate, and uprooted them. He put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the mountain opposite Hebron.

It was reported to Saul that David had come to Keilah, and Saul said, "The LORD has delivered him into my hand because he has shut himself in by going into a town with double gates and bars."

Their neighbors came from as far away as the territories of Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, bringing provisions loaded on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen. They brought abundant provisions of meal, fig bars, raisins, wine, oil, oxen, and sheep, because there was joy in Israel.

He also built upper and lower Beth-horon as fortified cities, installing walls, gates, and bars,

He had told Judah, "Let's build up these cities, surrounding them with walls, towers, gates, and bars. The land still belongs to us, because we have kept on seeking the LORD our God. We have sought him out, and he has given us rest all around us." So the people built and prospered.

The Fish Gate was repaired by Hassenaah's sons. They built its framework and installed its doors, including locks and security bars,

Paseah's son Joiada and Besodeiah's son Meshullam repaired the Old Gate. They built its framework and installed its doors, including locks and security bars.

Hanun and the residents of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate, reconstructing it and installing its doors, including locks and security bars. They also rebuilt 1,000 cubits of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.

Rechab's descendant Malchijah, ruling official of the Beth-haccherem district, repaired the Dung Gate, reconstructing it, installing its doors, its locks, and its security bars.

Colhozeh's son Shallum, ruling official of the Mizpah district, repaired the Fountain Gate, reconstructing it, installing its doors, its locks, and its security bars, as well as the Pool of Shelach near the royal garden as far as the stairway that descends from the City of David.

Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?"

when I proscribed a boundary for it, set in place bars and doors for it;

His bones are conduits of bronze; his strong bones are like bars of iron.

For he shattered bronze gates and cut through iron bars.

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates, blessing your children within you.

An offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city, and his disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

"I myself will go before you, and he will make the mountains level; I'll shatter bronze doors and cut through iron bars.

"Arise, go up against a nation at ease, living securely," declares the LORD, "without gates or bars, living alone.

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting. They stay in their strongholds; their strength is dried up; they have become like women. Her buildings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.

Jerusalem's gates collapsed to the ground; he destroyed and broke the bars of her gates. Both king and prince have gone into captivity. There is no instruction, and the prophets receive no vision from the LORD.

and boasting, "I'm going to invade a land comprised of open country that is at rest, its people living confidently, all of whose inhabitants will be living securely, with neither fortification nor bars on their doors.

I will shatter the gate bars of Damascus, and I will cut off the residents of the Aven Valley, along with the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Aram will be exiled to Kir," says the LORD.

I sank to the roots of the mountains; the earth's prison bars closed around me forever. Yet you resurrect the dead from the Pit, LORD my God!

Look at your people they are women! Your borders stand wide open to your enemies, while fire consumes the bars of your gates."