Bible Verses About Gates

He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, “I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.

Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”

He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”

They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.

The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.

To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watch against watch.

Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two and two.

For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.

These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.

Thus said the LORD to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

and tell them, Hear the LORD’s word, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.

Therefore Yeshua also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.