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 thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of curious work: with cherubim shall it be made. And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. read more. And thou shalt hang the vail under the buttons, that thou mayst bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide to you between the holy place and the most holy.
And thou shalt make a hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needle work.
Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlor upon him, and locked them.
And they tarried till they were ashamed: and behold, he opened not the doors of the parlor, therefore they took a key and opened them: and behold, their lord lay dead on the earth.
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 broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
I rose up to open to my beloved: and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet-smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
I am the door: by me if any man shall enter he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
For a great door and effectual is opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
Buried with him in baptism, in which also ye are raised with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
At the same time praying also for us, that God would open to 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 hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.
Smith
Doors.
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