13 Bible Verses about Locks And Bars

For He has strengthened the bars of your gates,
He has blessed your children within you.

“Your strongholds will be iron and bronze,
And as your days are, so will your strength, your rest and security be.

Then Ehud went out into the vestibule and shut the doors of the upper chamber behind him, and locked them.

Instead, he called his young man who was his personal servant and said, “Now throw this woman out of my presence and bolt the door behind her.”

Now Tamar was wearing a [long-sleeved] robe of various colors; for that is how the virgin daughters of the king dressed themselves in robes. Then Amnon’s personal servant took her out and bolted the door behind her.

“We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened [the doors], we found no one inside.”

The cities of the South (the Negev) have been closed up,
And there is no one to open them;
All Judah has been carried into exile,
Completely carried away into exile.

“A garden enclosed is my sister, my [promised] bride—
A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.

A brother offended is harder to win over than a fortified city,
And contentions [separating families] are like the bars of a castle.

The sword will whirl against and fall on their cities,
And will demolish the bars of their gates and fortifications
And will consume them because of their counsels.

“I also will break the bar [of the gate] of Damascus,
And cut off and destroy the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven (Wickedness),
And the ruler who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden (Damascus);
And the people of Aram [conquered by the Assyrians] will go into exile to Kir,”
Says the Lord.

But Samson lay [resting] until midnight, then at midnight he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two door-posts, and pulled them up, [security] bar and all, and he put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the hill which is opposite Hebron.

Behold, your people are [as weak and helpless as] women in your midst!
The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies;
Fire consumes the bars across your gates.