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Judges 1:24-25
And the watchers saw a man coming out of the town, and said to him, If you will make clear to us the way into the town, we will be kind to you. So he made clear to them the way into the town, and they put it to the sword; but they let the man and all his family get away safe.

Proverbs 22:22-23
Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge: For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness. Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsCivic RighteousnessJudgesTownMagistratesAdministrationJudging RightlyMan AppointingAppointments

2 Samuel 15:2
And Absalom got up early, morning after morning, and took his place at the side of the public meeting-place: and when any man had a cause which had to come to the king to be judged, then Absalom, crying out to him, said, What is your town? and he would say, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel. Verse ConceptsGatesRoadsStanding In The GatewayThose Who Rose EarlyWhere From?

2 Chronicles 8:5
And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks; Verse ConceptsFortificationsGates

Deuteronomy 3:5
All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns. Verse ConceptsCityGatesVillagesWallsCitiesOutside The CityWalled TownsUnguarded

Joshua 6:26
Then Joshua gave the people orders with an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed before the Lord who puts his hand to the building up of this town: with the loss of his first son will he put the first stone of it in place, and with the loss of his youngest son he will put up its doors. Verse ConceptsFoundationsFirstbornFathers, Sin Of TheAdjurationGatesOaths, HumanProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtDeath Of The FirstbornThe Youngest ChildFoundations Of NationsCity GatesCursing The UngodlyRebuilding Named Citiesrebuilding

1 Samuel 23:7
And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in. Verse ConceptsGatesTownShutting GatesGiven Into One's HandsTelling Of Movements

2 Samuel 18:24
Now David was seated between the two town doors; and the watchman went up to the roof of the doorways, on the wall, and, lifting up his eyes, saw a man running by himself. Verse ConceptsRoofWallsRooftopSitting In The GatewayRunning With NewsPeople Sitting Down

Judges 5:8
They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel? Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And UpNo Help In Other GodsVolunteering

Isaiah 22:7
And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town. Verse ConceptsGatesChariotsWaiting At GatesRiding HorsesAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

Ezekiel 21:15
In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death. Verse ConceptsGatesStanding In The GatewaySparklingLosing CourageGod's Sword

2 Chronicles 18:9
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, were seated on their seats of authority, dressed in their robes, by the doorway into Samaria; and all the prophets were acting as prophets before them. Verse ConceptsRobesSchool Of ProphetsThreshing FloorThrone

Jeremiah 39:3
All the captains of the king of Babylon came in and took their places in the middle doorway of the town, Nergal-shar-ezer, ruler of Sin-magir, the Rabmag, and Nebushazban, the Rab-saris, and all the captains of the king of Babylon. Verse ConceptsSitting In The GatewayNamed Gates

Jeremiah 20:2
And Pashhur gave blows to Jeremiah and had his feet chained in a framework of wood in the higher doorway of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord. Verse ConceptsFloggingGatesNamed Gates

Deuteronomy 17:5
Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead. Verse ConceptsGatesPunishment, Legal Aspects OfBusiness At The GatewayInstructions About Stoning

Proverbs 31:23
Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land. Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersJudgment SeatRespect, For Human BeingsGood Wives DescriptionSitting In The GatewayCity GatesGodly WomanA Good WomanMan And WomanThe ElderlyA Good Husbandelders

Proverbs 31:31
Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place. Verse ConceptsReward, DivineWagesIndustryOne's DeedsGodly WomanA Good Womanaccomplishmentsaccomplishment

Nehemiah 1:3
They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire. Verse ConceptsFortificationsCityGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallCity GatesBurning JerusalemSurvivors Of Israel

Lamentations 2:9
Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord. Verse ConceptsSpiritual Famine,Poverty, SpiritualVisionsSpiritual DestitutionBreaking SticksDestruction Of JerusalemKings ExiledCity GatesNo VisionsProphecy AbolishedPutting Things Down

Proverbs 1:21
Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: Verse ConceptsBusiness At The Gateway

Jeremiah 17:19
This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem; Verse ConceptsGoing Out And Coming In

2 Samuel 3:27
And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel. Verse ConceptsGesturesAssassinations, CompletedConfidence BetrayedBetrayalAvenger of bloodLength Of LifeMurderPrivacyRevenge, Examples OfStomachsTreacheryUnfaithfulness, To PeopleAmbushBetrayal, Example OfBusiness At The GatewayStriking To DeathInformation In SecretWhy People Did ThingsKilling Named Individuals

Genesis 34:20
Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town, Verse ConceptsBusiness At The Gateway

Genesis 23:10
Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town, saying, Verse ConceptsempiresCitiesBusiness At The GatewayIn Men's Presence

Genesis 23:16
And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money. Verse ConceptsAgreement, Making AgreementsMerchantsTradeWeighingIn Men's PresenceAgreeing With One Anotherhumor

Nehemiah 13:19
And so, when the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the doors to be shut and not to be open again till after the Sabbath: and I put some of my servants by the door so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day. Verse ConceptsShadowsCitiesShutting GatesDarkness Of Night

Joshua 2:5
And when it was the time for shutting the doors at dark, they went out; I have no idea where the men went: but if you go after them quickly, you will overtake them. Verse ConceptsGatesShutting Gates

2 Kings 7:1
Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria. Verse ConceptsFoodCoinageElisha, Prophecies OfGatesGrainProphecy, Methods Of OtTradeWeights And Measures, DryMan's Action TomorrowInexpensiveOther Volume Measurestomorrowmarketing

2 Kings 7:18
So the words of the man of God came true, which he said to the king: Two measures of barley will be offered for the price of a shekel and a measure of good meal for a shekel, tomorrow about this time in the market-place of Samaria. Verse ConceptsMan's Action TomorrowInexpensiveOther Volume Measurestomorrow

Job 5:4
Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause. Verse Conceptsdefence, humanSafetyGod Is HolyChildren Suffering

Isaiah 29:21
Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause. Verse ConceptsInjustice, Examples OfTrapUncharitablenessBusiness At The GatewayMan Trapping

2 Samuel 18:4
And the king said to them, I will do whatever seems best to you. So the king took his place by the door of the town, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. Verse ConceptsStanding In The Gateway

Ezekiel 21:22
At his right hand was the fate of Jerusalem, to give orders for destruction, to send up the war-cry, to put engines of war against the doors, lifting up earthworks, building walls. Verse ConceptsBattering ramsBattle CriesAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldEvil For The Right HandSiege Mounds

Proverbs 1:21
Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: Verse ConceptsBusiness At The Gateway

Genesis 19:1
And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth. Verse ConceptsCourteousnessBowingUnidentified AngelsNewsAngels, Ministry To UnbelieversSalutationsSitting In The GatewayBowing Heads Before GodTwo AngelsAngels Going At God's BiddingSpoken Greetings

2 Kings 7:17
And the king gave authority to that captain, on whose arm he was supported, to have control over the doorway into the town; but he was crushed to death there under the feet of the people, as the man of God had said when the king went down to him. Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfTrampling PeopleDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsOther Supporting

Acts 14:13
And the priest of the image of Jupiter, which was before the town, took oxen and flowers to the doors of the town, and was about to make an offering with the people. Verse ConceptsGatesPriests, Tasks In Nt TimesPriests, Types Of In Nt TimesSacrificing CattleWorshipping Men

Ruth 4:1
And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated. Verse ConceptsGatesSitting In The Gateway

2 Chronicles 32:5
Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war. Verse ConceptsArmourShieldsTowersWeaponsArmor ProtectionBuilding Jerusalem's Wallrebuildingreinforcement

2 Chronicles 26:9
Uzziah made towers in Jerusalem, at the doorway in the angle and at the doorway in the valley and at the turn of the wall, arming them. Verse ConceptsFarmersTowersNamed GatesSportsreinforcement

Psalm 48:12
Verse ConceptsNumberingCounting Buildingszion

Song of Songs 8:10
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come. Verse ConceptsBreasts, Being AttractiveSexual Desirebreasts

2 Chronicles 25:23
And Joash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and took him to Jerusalem; and he had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the doorway in the angle, four hundred cubits. Verse ConceptsGatesBattering ramsNamed GatesTwelve Beings

2 Chronicles 36:19
And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction. Verse ConceptsFortificationsBattering ramsPalacesWallsConflagrationsDestruction Of Jerusalem's Wall

Jeremiah 50:15
Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her. Verse ConceptsTowersWallsMan AvengingLet Evil ReboundRevengeSurrenderTreating Others

Deuteronomy 28:52
Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you. Verse ConceptsFortressesFortificationsCityWallsWalled TownsNations Attacking Israel

Nehemiah 1:3
They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire. Verse ConceptsFortificationsCityGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallCity GatesBurning JerusalemSurvivors Of Israel

Nehemiah 2:12-17
And in the night I got up, taking with me a small band of men; I said nothing to any man of what God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem: and I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated. And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire. Then I went on to the door of the fountain and to the king's pool: but there was no room for my beast to get through. read more.
Then in the night, I went up by the stream, viewing the wall; then turning back, I went in by the door in the valley, and so came back. And the chiefs had no knowledge of where I had been or what I was doing; and I had not then said anything to the Jews or to the priests or the great ones or the chiefs or the rest of those who were doing the work. Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.

2 Corinthians 11:33
And being let down in a basket from the wall through a window, I got free from his hands. Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingBaskets, Uses OfRopesLowered From WindowsLowering People

Joshua 2:15
Then she let them down from the window by a cord, for the house where she was living was on the town wall. Verse ConceptsCityRopesWallsLowered From WindowsLowering People

Acts 9:24-25
But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the roads out of the town, so that they might put him to death: But his disciples took him by night and let him down from the wall in a basket.

Deuteronomy 1:28
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesExaggerationsCitydoubt, results ofdiscouragementHeart, HumanLargenessPessimismSkyHuman EmotionFaint HeartednessGiantsLosing CourageWhere To?Sky, Figurative Use

Deuteronomy 3:5
All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns. Verse ConceptsCityGatesVillagesWallsCitiesOutside The CityWalled TownsUnguarded

Isaiah 62:6
I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest, Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightSleeplessnessWatchmanAnticipation

Song of Songs 5:7
The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. Verse ConceptsPeople Stripping People

2 Samuel 20:15
And Joab and his men got him shut up in Abel of Beth-maacah, and put up an earthwork against the town: and all Joab's men did their best to get the wall broken down. Verse ConceptsBattering ramsSiegesWallsSiege MoundsPeople Attacking Their Own

Ezekiel 4:2-3
And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls. And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.

2 Kings 6:30
Then the king, hearing what the woman said, took his robes in his hands, violently parting them; and, while he was walking on the wall, the people, looking, saw that under his robe he had haircloth on his flesh. Verse ConceptsBodySackcloth And AshesThose Who Tore Clothes

2 Kings 6:26
And when the king of Israel was going by on the wall, a woman came crying out to him, and said, Help! my lord king. Verse ConceptsBeggarsPassing ByBeggingPeople Helping

Isaiah 25:12
And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust. Verse ConceptsStrongholdsFortsPutting Things Downdust

Isaiah 2:15
And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;

Jeremiah 49:27
And I will have a fire lighted on the wall of Damascus, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad. Verse ConceptsFortificationsBurning Citiessyriadamascus

Amos 1:7
And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, burning up its great houses: Verse ConceptsDestruction Of StrongholdsFire Of Judgement

2 Samuel 11:20-21
If the king is angry and says, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall? Who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall? Then say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is among the dead.

1 Samuel 31:10
His war-dress they put in the house of Astarte; and his body was fixed on the wall of Beth-shan. Verse ConceptsFortificationsFalse GodsWallsServing Asherah

Nehemiah 12:27
And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music. Verse ConceptsBaby dedicationHarpsJoy, Of IsraelLyreMusicMusical Instruments, types ofOrchestrasCymbalsBuilding Jerusalem's Wall

Numbers 13:28
But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there. Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesLargenessGiantsStrong Nations

1 Kings 20:30
But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room. Verse ConceptsWallsTwenty Thousand And UpPeoples Who FledPrivate Rooms

2 Kings 18:26
Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Will you kindly make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall. Verse ConceptsLanguagesLanguages Mentioned In Scripture

Isaiah 22:10
And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger. Verse ConceptsNumberingCounting BuildingsDestruction Of HousesBuilding Jerusalem's Wall

2 Kings 3:27
Then he took his oldest son, who would have been king after him, offering him as a burned offering on the wall. So there was great wrath against Israel; and they went away from him, back to their country. Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSanctity Of LifeWallsIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfSacrificing The FirstbornSacrifice

Joshua 2:15
Then she let them down from the window by a cord, for the house where she was living was on the town wall. Verse ConceptsCityRopesWallsLowered From WindowsLowering People

Joel 2:7-9
They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken. No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken. They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.

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