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'Door' in the Bible

Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it."

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, divineAcceptance, From GodAbel and CainDoorsSin, Causes OfCrouchingEvil DesiresThe Entrance Of SinAcceptanceDoing The Right ThingSmiling

Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches from the top. Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.

Verse ConceptsRooftopDecksThree Parts Of Constructions

Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.

Verse ConceptsShutting SecurelyShutting Doors

"Out of our way!" they cried, and "This man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge us! We'll do more harm to you than to them!" They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.

Verse ConceptsSeductionThreateningsSojourningPressingBroken ThingsSuffering From ForeignersWorse

So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutShutting DoorsPulling People

Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGod BlindingNot Finding

Take a branch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out the door of his house until morning.

Verse ConceptsDoorpostsBasinsHyssopPlantsProperty, HousesSprinklingGoing OutsideBlood On The DoorTwo Parts Of Constructions

For the Lord will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the Lord will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

Verse ConceptsAngels as agents of judgmentPassing OverPassing ThroughThe DestroyerBlood On The DoorTwo Parts Of ConstructionsAngel Of DeathFamily Death

then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorposts, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

Verse ConceptsGesturesEarsDoorpostsToolsEternal LoyaltyStaying PutSharp ToolsPiercingsslaveryVolunteering

and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; the hanging for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle;

Verse ConceptsPolesDrugs

With it he made the bases for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, and all the utensils of the altar,

Verse ConceptsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased.

Verse ConceptsTentsGod Will Be AngryMourning In RegretNot Pleasing People

you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well).

Verse ConceptsToolsStaying PutSharp ToolsPiercingsRegulations For Men And Women

the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father's house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father's house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfDeath Penalty For Sexual SinInstructions About StoningsexDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherSex Before MarriageFamily DeathFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughtersmistresspremaritalwhoresvirginity

The Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud that stood above the door of the tent.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsTheophanyGod Appearing At The Doorway

They were having a good time, when suddenly some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, surrounded the house and kept beating on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, "Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him."

Verse ConceptsVulgarityCrude LanguageDecadenceHomosexualityKnockingSexual Union IntendedAbuse

But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.

Verse ConceptsNot going home directly

The messenger said to David, "The men overpowered us and attacked us in the field. But we forced them to retreat all the way to the door of the city gate.

He called his personal attendant and said to him, "Take this woman out of my sight and lock the door behind her!"

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsLocks And Bars

(Now she was wearing a long robe, for this is what the king's virgin daughters used to wear.) So Amnon's attendant removed her and bolted the door behind her.

Verse ConceptsClothingClothing, Kinds OfRobesDressFine ClothesShutting DoorsMulti ColouredLocks And Barsvirginity

He also made two doors out of wood from evergreens; each door had two folding leaves.

the pure gold bowls, trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

Verse ConceptsSpoonsBowlsCensersGold Items For The TabernaclProvision Of Temple Utensils

When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, "Come on in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have been commissioned to give you bad news.

Verse ConceptsSoundHearing ThingsPretendingFeet In Action

Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers; set aside each one when you have filled it."

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsPraying Behind Closed Doors

So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.

She went up and laid him down on the prophet's bed. She shut the door behind her and left.

Verse ConceptsMan Of God

He went in by himself and closed the door. Then he prayed to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsWhere To PrayPraying Behind Closed Doors

Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. The king sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the leaders, "Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?" Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him."

Verse ConceptsMessengerRemoving HeadsShutting DoorsKilling ProphetsSkullsSoundThe Elders Gathered

Take the container of olive oil, pour it over his head, and say, 'This is what the Lord says, "I have designated you as king over Israel."' Then open the door and run away quickly!"

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMaking Kings

Dogs will devour Jezebel on the plot of ground in Jezreel; she will not be buried.'" Then he opened the door and ran away.

Verse ConceptsdogsAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesNo Burialsjezebel

"Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down the silver that has been brought by the people to the Lord's temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtCounting MoneyDoorkeepersFinances

the pure gold trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

Verse ConceptsCensers

They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the silver that had been brought to God's temple. The Levites who guarded the door had collected it from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim and from all who were left in Israel, as well as from all the people of Judah and Benjamin and the residents of Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsRemnantSamaritans

After him Baruch son of Zabbai worked on another section, from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

Verse ConceptseagernessZealThe Angle

After him Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, worked on another section from the door of Eliashib's house to the end of it.

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman DesiresEnticementAvoid AdulteryThe Love Of Women

Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

Verse ConceptsLasciviousnessEvil AssociationsFar From One

So she sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,

Like a door that turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.

Verse ConceptsLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfSluggardsWasting TimeBedssloth

The Beloved about Her Lover: I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door! The Lover to His Beloved: "Open for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night."

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The Church

The mandrakes send out their fragrance; over our door is every delicacy, both new and old, which I have stored up for you, my lover.

If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver; but if she is a door, we will barricade her with boards of cedar.

Verse ConceptsPuritywomanhood

The sound of their voices shook the door frames, and the temple was filled with smoke.

Verse ConceptsSmokeTheophanyTremblingMoving To A New Place

I will place the key to the house of David on his shoulder. When he opens the door, no one can close it; when he closes the door, no one can open it.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Spiritual Significance OfKeysOpen DoorsShutting The Kingdom

Behind the door and doorpost you put your symbols. Indeed, you depart from me and go up and invite them into bed with you. You purchase favors from them, you love their bed, and gaze longingly on their genitals.

Verse ConceptsCoveringNakednessPagansBedsmanhood

He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfAstral ProjectionGod's HandGateways Of The TempleFacing NorthGod Lifting PeopleVisions From GodGod Opposes IdolatryOther References To HairCourts Of The TempleInner BeautyHairdreadlocks

There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; there they washed the burnt offering.

Verse ConceptsClean AnimalsRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

The outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary each had a double door.

Verse ConceptsDoubled Over

Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.

Verse ConceptsSwingingTwo Parts Of Constructions

Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire. He called out, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the most high God, come out! Come here!" Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego emerged from the fire.

Verse ConceptsServants Of The LordGoing OutsideFurnaces

Bible Theasaurus

Approach (127 instances)
Barrier (7 instances)
Channel (5 instances)
Doorway (256 instances)
Entrance (223 instances)
Gateway (40 instances)
Inlet (5 instances)
Lane (1 instance)
Portal (1 instance)
Threshold (29 instances)

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