And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that had come were by themselves in the field.

Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, that is at the gate!

And the three broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,

And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.

To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the way of the ascent, ward against ward.