'Barred' in the Bible

When Saul was told that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand, for he has boxed himself into a corner by entering a city with two barred gates."

He made upper Beth Horon and lower Beth Horon fortified cities with walls and barred gates,

He said to the people of Judah: "Let's build these cities and fortify them with walls, towers, and barred gates. The land remains ours because we have followed the Lord our God and he has made us secure on all sides." So they built the cities and prospered.

Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"

A relative offended is harder to reach than a strong city, and disputes are like the barred gates of a fortified citadel.

You will say, "I will invade a land of unwalled towns; I will advance against those living quietly in security -- all of them living without walls and barred gates --

I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O Lord, my God.