Gates

How Nave’s arranged it

• Of citiesDeuteronomy 3:5Joshua 6:261 Samuel 23:72 Samuel 18:242 Chronicles 8:5
• Made of ironActs 12:10
• Made of woodNehemiah 1:3
• Made of brassPsalms 107:16Isaiah 45:2
• Double doorsIsaiah 45:1Ezekiel 41:24
• The open square of, a place for idlersGenesis 19:11 Samuel 4:18Psalms 69:12Proverbs 1:21Jeremiah 17:19Jeremiah 17:20
• Religious services held atActs 14:13
• The law read atNehemiah 8
• The place for the transaction of public business, announcement of legal transactionsGenesis 23:10Genesis 23:16
• Conferences on public affairsGenesis 34:20
• Holding courts of justiceDeuteronomy 16:18Deuteronomy 21:19Deuteronomy 22:15Joshua 20:4Ruth 4:12 Samuel 15:2Proverbs 22:22Zechariah 8:16
• Place for public concourseGenesis 23:10Proverbs 1:21Proverbs 8:3Jeremiah 14:2Jeremiah 22:2

The passages, in Bible order (63)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 19:1

   Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,

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   “Lot was not inside Sodom "but at the gate." I might have said, just as Abraham was sitting outside his tent, out of hospitality, even at an inconvenient time (for it was the middle of the day) on the lookout for travelers, so his relative and the imitator of his morality "was sitting at the gate" ready to invite those passing through the land, even though evening had now come. For he surely knew the impiety of the Sodomites and that there was no rest for the stranger in that place.

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2. Genesis 23:10

   Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,

   ›Commentary on Genesis 23:102 voices

   “And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth,....

   “And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth - And Ephron ישב yosheb, was sitting among the children of Heth, but, as was before conjectured, was personally unknown to Abraham; he therefore answered for himself, making a free tender of the field, etc., to Abraham, in the presence of all the people, which amounted to a legal conveyance of the whole property to the patriarch.

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3. Genesis 23:16

   Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

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   “And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron,....

   “Current with the merchant - עבר לסחר ober lassocher, passing to or with the traveler - such as was commonly used by those who traveled about with merchandise of any sort. The word signifies the same as hawker or peddler among us.

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4. Genesis 28:17

   And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”

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   “And he was afraid,....

   “How dreadful is this place! - The appearance of the ladder, the angels, and the Divine glory at the top of the ladder, must have left deep, solemn, and even awful impressions on the mind of Jacob; and hence the exclamation in the text, How dreadful is this place!

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5. Genesis 34:20

   So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:

   ›Commentary on Genesis 34:201 voice

   “(Chapter 34, Verse 20) And Emor and his son Sichem came to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of the city, saying, these men are peaceful with us. Where now the Septuagint translated it as 'peaceful', Aquila interpreted it as 'consummated' or 'perfected', for which in Hebrew it is read () Salamim. From this it is clear that what we said above about Salem is true.

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6. Deuteronomy 3:5

   All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 3:51 voice

   “All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars,.... That is, all the cities in the kingdom of Bashan; and though they were, it hindered not their falling into the hands of the Israelites; and this might serve to encourage them against those fears they were possessed of by the spies, with respect to the cities in the land of Canaan; see Num 13:28. besides unwalled towns a great many; small towns and villages adjacent to the several cities, as is common.

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7. Deuteronomy 16:18

   You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

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   “Judges and officers shall thou make thee,.... Judges were fixed in the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, and those that have lawsuits come before them; officers are masters of the staff and whip, and they stand before the judges, and go into markets, streets, and shops, to order the weights and measures, and to smite all that do wrong; and all they do is by order of the judges; so Maimonides (s): the qualifications of judges to be chosen and constituted by the people are thus described by him.

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8. Deuteronomy 17:5

   you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.

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   “Thou shall bring forth that man or that woman which have committed the wicked thing,....

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9. Deuteronomy 21:19

   his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

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   “Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,....

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10. Deuteronomy 22:15

    Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate

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    “Then shall the father and the mother of the damsel take,....

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11. Joshua 2:5

    At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not know which way they went. Pursue them quickly, and you may catch them!”

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    “And it came to pass, about the time of the shutting of the gate,....

    “This was the case with Rahab. Scripture not only recalls nothing virtuous about her but even speaks of her immorality. Yet for her lie alone, whereby she chose to conceal the spies rather than betray them, she deserved to share an eternal blessing with the people of God.

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12. Joshua 2:7

    So the king’s men set out in pursuit of the spies along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they had gone out, the gate was shut.

    ›Commentary on Joshua 2:71 voice

    “And the men pursued after them,....

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13. Joshua 6:26

    At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”

    ›Commentary on Joshua 6:261 voice

    “It is said of the time when Ahab reigned, "In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho; he laid its foundations in Abiram, his firstborn; and he set up its gates in Segub, his youngest son." The apparent sense is that when the above-mentioned city's …

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14. Joshua 20:4

    When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.

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    “And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities,....

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15. Ruth 4:1

    Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.

    ›Commentary on Ruth 4:11 voice

    “The man was so virtuous that he did not rush into a marriage outside the law, but he spoke with his neighbors about the marriage. However, his words are also worthy of admiration. For his first words were not about the marriage but about the …

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16. 1 Samuel 4:18

    As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.

    ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 4:181 voice

    “See what chastity is required in a bishop! If his child is unchaste, he himself cannot be a bishop, and he offends God in the same way as did Eli the priest, who had indeed rebuked his sons, but because he had not put away the offenders, fell backwards and died before the lamp of God went out.

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