Thematic Bible: Gates of


Thematic Bible



Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly laid bare, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; so that the peoples will have laboured in vain, and the nations for the fire: and they shall be weary. Verse ConceptsFutilityCityBroadnessCity GatesFire Of JudgementBurning CitiesUseless LabourToiling In Vain

Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him and I will loose the loins of kings; to open before him the two-leaved doors, and the gates shall not be shut: I will go before thee, and make the elevated places plain; I will break in pieces the brazen doors, and cut asunder the bars of iron;

Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death: Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Prayer DuringGatesMercifulnessGates Of DeathNot DyingDeath PreventedPeople Being HatedDeath Of Loved One


Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death? Verse ConceptsGatesShadowsGates Of DeathThe Shadow Of DeathThe Fact Of Death

I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years. Verse ConceptsGatesGates Of DeathEarly DeathLife Cut Short

And Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsNamed GatesTwelve Beings

And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner-gate, four hundred cubits. Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallNamed GatesList Of Kings Of Israel

and from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the gate of the old wall, and above the fish-gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even to the sheep-gate; and they stood still in the prison-gate. Verse ConceptsGatesNamed Gates

The valley-gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the dung-gate. Verse ConceptsNamed GatesGay Marriage

(Now the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel, even over against the water-gate toward the east, and the tower which lies out.) Verse ConceptsGatesNamed GatesTemple Assistants

And Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they built the sheep-gate. They hallowed it, and set up its doors; and they hallowed it even to the tower of Meah, to the tower of Hananeel. Verse ConceptsGatesHigh Priest, In OtTowersNamed Gates

and from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the gate of the old wall, and above the fish-gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even to the sheep-gate; and they stood still in the prison-gate. Verse ConceptsGatesNamed Gates

And the fish-gate did the sons of Senaah build: they laid its beams, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars. Verse ConceptsGatesNamed Gates

And between the ascent of the corner and the sheep-gate repaired the goldsmiths and the dealers. Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

And the princes of Judah heard these things; and they went up from the king's house unto the house of Jehovah, and sat in the entry of the new gate of Jehovah. Verse ConceptsSitting In The GatewayNamed Gates

And Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of the house of Jehovah, in the ears of all the people. Verse ConceptsCourtyardSecretaryNamed GatesReading The Scriptures

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working-days; but on the sabbath-day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. Verse ConceptsNew Moon FestivalSix DaysThe Act Of OpeningOpening The TempleShutting GatesFacing EastOn The Sabbath

And when the prince shall offer a voluntary burnt-offering or voluntary peace-offerings unto Jehovah, the gate that looketh toward the east shall be opened for him and he shall offer his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings as he did on the sabbath-day, and he shall go out again, and the gate shall be shut after he hath gone out. Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningOpening GatesShutting GatesFacing EastOn The SabbathFree Will

Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. It was he who built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah. Verse ConceptsSolomon's TempleGateways Of The TempleIncense Offered Amiss

and a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they placed every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who were going into the temple; Verse ConceptsCripplesGatesLamenessLonelinessWeakness, PhysicalBeauty, In ArtefactsHelplessnessChronic AilmentsSitting In The GatewayNamed GatesFrom The WombOnce A DayPeople Carrying Live PeopleInner BeautyThe Beauty Of Nature