Bible verses about Gates
Scripture references about Gates, organized by subject from the classic topical indexes of Orville Nave and R. A. Torrey.
Gates in Torrey's Topical Textbook
- Design of: Isa 62:10
- MADE OF
- Brass: Ps 107:16; Isa 45:2
- Iron: Ac 12:10
- Often two-leaved: Isa 45:1
- Fastened with bars of iron: Ps 107:16; Isa 45:2
- MADE TO
- Cities: 1Ki 17:10
- Houses: Lu 16:20; Ac 12:14
- Temples: Ac 3:2
- Palaces: Es 5:13
- Prisons: Ac 12:10
- Camps: Ex 32:26
- Rivers: Na 2:6
- OF CITIES
- Chief places of concourse: Pr 1:21
- Courts of justice held at: De 16:18; 2Sa 15:2; Pr 22:22,23
- Land sold at: Ge 23:10,16
- Land redeemed at: 2Ki 7:1,18
- Markets held at: 2Ki 7:1,18
- Proclamations made at: Pr 1:21; Jer 17:19
- Councils of state held at: 2Ch 18:9; Jer 39:3
- Conferences held at: Ge 34:20; 2Sa 3:27
- Public commendation given at: Pr 31:23,31
- Public censure passed at: Job 5:4; Isa 29:21
- Shut at night-fall: Jos 2:5; Ne 13:19
- Chief points of attack in war
- Jud 5:8: Isa 22:7; Eze 21:15
- Battering rams used against: Eze 21:22
- Experienced officers placed over: 2Ki 7:17
- Troops reviewed at, going to war: 2Sa 18:4
- Often razed and burned: Ne 1:3; La 2:9
- Idolatrous rites performed at: Ac 14:13
- Criminals punished at: De 17:5; Jer 20:2
- Custom of sitting at, in the evening, alluded to: Ge 19:1
- OF THE TEMPLE
- Called gates of Zion: La 1:4
- Called gates of righteousness: Ps 118:19
- Called gates of the Lord: Ps 118:20
- Overlaid with gold: 2Ki 18:16
- One specially beautiful: Ac 3:2
- Levites the porters of: 2Ch 8:14; 23:4
- Charge of, given by lot: 1Ch 26:13-19
- The treasury placed at: 2Ch 24:8; Mr 12:41
- The pious Israelites delighted to enter: Ps 118:19,20; 100:4
- Frequented by beggars: Ac 3:2
- OF JERUSALEM
- High gate of Benjamin: Jer 20:2; 37:13
- Fish gate: 2Ch 33:14; Ne 3:3
- Sheep gate: Ne 3:1; Joh 5:2
- Gate of Miphkad: Ne 3:31
- Gate of Ephraim: Ne 12:39
- Valley gate: 2Ch 26:9; Ne 2:13
- Water gate: Ne 3:26; 8:3
- Horse gate: 2Ch 23:15; Ne 3:28
- Old gate: Ne 3:6; 12:39
- Corner gate: 2Ch 26:9
- Dung gate: Ne 3:14; 12:31
- Gate of the fountain: Ne 3:15
- Carcase of sin-offering burned without: Le 4:12; Heb 13:11-13
- Criminals generally punished without: Le 24:23; Joh 19:17; Heb 13:12
- ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of Christ: Joh 10:9
- (Of heaven,) of access to God: Ge 28:12-17
- (Of hell,) of Satan's power: Mt 16:18
- (Of the grave,) of death: Isa 38:10
- (Strait,) of the entrance to life: Mt 7:14
- (Wide,) of the entrance to ruin: Mt 7:13