Verses for the gates

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.

And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:

And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.