'Gates' in the Bible

God chose new [leaders], then war [was at the] gates; a small shield or a spear was not seen among forty thousand in Israel.

At the sound of [those] dividing [the sheep] among the watering places, there they will recount the righteous deeds of Yahweh, the righteous deeds for his warriors in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.