Psalm 147:13
For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.
Nehemiah 3:1-16
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.
Nehemiah 6:1
Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),
Nehemiah 7:1
Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,
Nehemiah 7:3
And I said to them, "Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes."
Nehemiah 12:30
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.
Psalm 48:11-14
Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments!
Psalm 51:18
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem;
Psalm 115:14-15
May the LORDgive you increase, you and your children!
Psalm 125:2
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.
Psalm 128:3-6
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
Psalm 144:12
May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;
Isaiah 44:3-5
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
Jeremiah 30:19-20
Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, and the voices of those who celebrate. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.
Lamentations 2:8-9
The LORD determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:25
Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.
Zechariah 8:3-5
Thus says the LORD: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.
Luke 19:42-44
saying, "Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.