'City gate' in the Bible

Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were each sitting on their own thrones, arrayed in their robes, and sitting on the threshing floor at the entrance to the city gate of Samaria, and all of the prophets were prophesying in front of them.

He appointed military officers to take charge of the people, who gathered them together in the square near the city gate and spoke to them encouragingly,