Psalm 147:13
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed 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 sanctified it, and set up its doors; even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel.
Nehemiah 6:1
Now it happened, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates;)
Nehemiah 7:1
Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
Nehemiah 7:3
I said to them, "Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house."
Nehemiah 12:30
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 well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalm 115:14-15
May the LORD increase you more and more, 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 as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
Psalm 144:12
Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Isaiah 44:3-5
For I will pour water upon the thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:
Jeremiah 30:19-20
Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Lamentations 2:8-9
The LORD has determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying. He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth did not believe, neither all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary or the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:25
Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the time of an anointed prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with open spaces and a moat, but in times of distress.
Zechariah 8:3-5
Thus says the LORD: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;' and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, 'The Holy Mountain.'"
Luke 19:42-44
saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things that make for peace. But now, they are hidden from your eyes.