who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

David longed, and said, "Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!"

The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, 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 Yahweh,

and with them Heman and Jeduthun [with] trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and [with] instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.

The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every gate.

To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watch against watch.