Quotes About Gate

He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out and ask, “What city are you from?” And if he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”

So the king got up and sat in the gate, and all the people were told: “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” So they all came before the king. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled, each man to his home.

Now the king had appointed the officer on whose arm he leaned to be in charge of the gate, but the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king had come to him.

And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

a third shall be at the gate of Sur, and a third at the gate behind the guards. You are to take turns guarding the temple—

David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”

The lot for the East Gate fell to Shelemiah. Then lots were cast for his son Zechariah, a wise counselor, and the lot for the North Gate fell to him.

The lot for the South Gate fell to Obed-edom, and the lot for the storehouses to his sons.

He also took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate. They seated King Joash on the royal throne,

At the kingís command a chest was made and placed outside, at the gate of the house of the LORD.

so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.

The Fish Gate was rebuilt by the sons of Hassenaah. They laid its beams and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.

The Jeshanah Gate was repaired by Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah. They laid its beams and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.

The Dung Gate was repaired by Malchijah son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem. He rebuilt it and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.

The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallun son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah. He rebuilt it, roofed it, and installed its doors, bolts, and bars. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah near the kingís garden, as far as the stairs that descend from the City of David.

and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the tower that juts out.

At the Fountain Gate they climbed the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall and passed above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.

When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the kingís gate.

But he went only as far as the kingís gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.

“Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the kingís gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”

This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it.

The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.