For he has strengthened the bars of your gates, blessing your children within you.

may your bolts be made of iron and bronze, and may your strength be sufficient for each day you live."

Then Ehud left the cool chamber in the direction of the vestibule, shutting and locking the doors behind him.

But he was unwilling to listen to her. So he called out to a young man who was serving him, and told him: "Send this woman away from me and lock the door after her."

Now she was clothed in a long sleeved, multi-colored ornamental tunic, commonly worn by the king's virgin daughters. When Amnon's servant threw her out and locked the door after her,

"We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside."

The towns in the Negev will be closed up, and there will be no one to open them. All Judah will be taken into exile and be completely exiled.

My sister, my bride, is a locked garden a locked rock garden, a sealed up spring.

An offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city, and his disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

The sword will fall on their cities, consuming and devouring their fortified gates, despite their planning.

I will shatter the gate bars of Damascus, and I will cut off the residents of the Aven Valley, along with the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Aram will be exiled to Kir," says the LORD.

Meanwhile, Samson had sex until midnight, then at midnight he got up, grabbed the doors, the two door posts, and the bars of the city gate, and uprooted them. He put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the mountain opposite Hebron.

Look at your people they are women! Your borders stand wide open to your enemies, while fire consumes the bars of your gates."