Bible Verses About Gates

He dreamt that there before him was a ladder resting on the ground with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of ADONAI were going up and down on it.

Then suddenly ADONAI was standing there next to him; and he said, "I am ADONAI, the God of Avraham your [grand]father and the God of Yitz'chak. The land on which you are lying I will give to you and to your descendants.

Your descendants will be as numerous as the grains of dust on the earth. You will expand to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. By you and your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.

Look, I am with you. I will guard you wherever you go, and I will bring you back into this land, because I won't leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

Ya'akov awoke from his sleep and said, "Truly, ADONAI is in this place - and I didn't know it!"

Then he became afraid and said, "This place is fearsome! This has to be the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!"

Great or small, they cast lots according to their clans for every gate.

The lot for the east gate fell to Shelemyahu. Then they cast lots for his son Z'kharyahu, a sensible adviser, and he was allotted the north gate.

'Oved-Edom was allotted the south gate and his sons the storehouse.

Shupim and Hosah were allotted the west gate and the Shallekhet Gate at the highway that goes up, with corresponding guards.

For the east there were six L'vi'im, for the north four a day, for the south four a day, for the Storehouse two and two,

while for the courtyard to the west there were four at the highway and two at the courtyard itself.

These were the divisions of the gatekeepers, consisting of descendants of the Korchim and descendants of M'rari.

Then ADONAI said this to me: "Go, and stand at the People's Gate, where the kings of Y'hudah go in and out, and at all the gates of Yerushalayim;

and say to them: 'Kings of Y'hudah, all Y'hudah and all living in Yerushalayim who enter through these gates, hear the word of ADONAI!

For the cohen hagadol brings the blood of animals into the Holiest Place as a sin offering, but their bodies are burned outside the camp.

So too Yeshua suffered death outside the gate, in order to make the people holy through his own blood.

Therefore, let us go out to him who is outside the camp and share his disgrace.

It had a great, high wall with twelve gates; at the gates were twelve angels; and inscribed on the gates were the names of the twelve tribes of Isra’el.

There were three gates to the east, three gates to the north, three gates to the south and three gates to the west.