Reference: Doors
Easton
moved on pivots of wood fastened in sockets above and below (Pr 26:14). They were fastened by a lock (Jg 3:23,25; Song 5:5) or by a bar (Jg 16:3; Job 38:10). In the interior of Oriental houses, curtains were frequently used instead of doors.
The entrances of the tabernacle had curtains (Ex 26:31-33,36). The "valley of Achor" is called a "door of hope," because immediately after the execution of Achan the Lord said to Joshua, "Fear not," and from that time Joshua went forward in a career of uninterrupted conquest. Paul speaks of a "door opened" for the spread of the gospel (1Co 16:9; 2Co 2:12; Col 4:3). Our Lord says of himself, "I am the door" (Joh 10:9). John (Re 4:1) speaks of a "door opened in heaven."
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And you shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of skillful work: with cherubim shall it be made: And you shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. read more. And you shall hang up the veil from the clasps, that you may bring in there within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
And you shall make a hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework.
Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the chamber behind him, and locked them.
And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the chamber; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the floor.
And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of a hill that is before Hebron.
And prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,
As the door turns upon its hinges, so does the slothful upon his bed.
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dripped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
For a great and effective door is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
Buried with him in baptism, in which also you are risen with him through the faith of the working of God, who has raised him from the dead.
Praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up here, and I will show you things which must be hereafter.
Smith
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