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 will make a curtain of blue and purple and crimson [yarns] and finely twisted linen, [the] work of a skilled craftsman; he will make it [with] cherubim. And you will put it on four acacia pillars overlaid with gold [with] their gold hooks on four silver bases. read more. And you will put the curtain under the clasps, and you will bring the ark of the testimony there inside the curtain, and the curtain will separate for you between the holy and the {most holy place}.
"And you will make for the entrance of the tent a screen of blue and purple and crimson [yarns] and finely twisted linen, [the] work of an embroiderer.
And Ehud went out the vestibule, and he closed the doors of the upper room and locked [them] behind him.
And they waited so long they became embarrassed because he did not open the doors of the upper room. So they took the key and opened [the doors], and there their lord was lying on the ground dead.
But Samson lay until the middle of the night; he got up in the middle of the night and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two door posts, tore them loose with the bar, put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the hill that is {in front of} Hebron.
and I prescribed my rule for it, and I set bars and doors,
The door turns on its hinge, and a lazy person on his bed.
I myself arose to open to my beloved; my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh upon the handles of the bolt.
I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and will go out and will find pasture.
for a great and effective door has opened for me, and [there are] many opponents.
having been buried with him in baptism, in which also you were raised together with [him] through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
praying at the same time for us also, that God may open for us a door of the message, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which also {I am a prisoner},
After these [things] I looked, and behold, an open door in heaven, and the former voice that I had heard like a trumpet speaking with me was saying, "Come up here and I will show you [the things] which must take place after these [things]."
Smith
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