Bible Verses About Gates

And he dreameth, and lo, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head is touching the heavens; and lo, messengers of God are going up and coming down by it;

and lo, Jehovah is standing upon it, and He saith, `I am Jehovah, God of Abraham thy father, and God of Isaac; the land on which thou art lying, to thee I give it, and to thy seed;

and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.

`And lo, I am with thee, and have kept thee whithersoever thou goest, and have caused thee to turn back unto this ground; for I leave thee not till that I have surely done that which I have spoken to thee.'

And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew not;'

and he feareth, and saith, `How fearful is this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.'

and they cause to fall lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for gate and gate.

And the lot falleth eastward to Shelemiah; and for Zechariah his son--a counsellor with understanding--they cause to fall lots, and his lot goeth out northward:

to Obed-Edom southward, and to his sons, the house of the gatherings;

to Shuppim and to Hosah to the west, with the gate Shallecheth, in the highway, the ascent, charge over-against charge;

to the east the Levites are six; to the north daily four, to the south daily four, and to the gatherings two by two,

at Parbar, to the west, are four at the highway, two at Parbar.

These are the courses of the gatekeepers, of the sons of the Korhite, and of the sons of Merari.

Thus said Jehovah unto me: `Go, and thou hast stood in the gate of the sons of the people, by which kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all gates of Jerusalem,

and thou hast said unto them: Hear a word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all inhabitants of Jerusalem, who are coming in by these gates,

for of those beasts whose blood is brought for sin into the holy places through the chief priest--of these the bodies are burned without the camp.

Wherefore, also Jesus--that he might sanctify through his own blood the people--without the gate did suffer;

now, then, may we go forth unto him without the camp, his reproach bearing;

having also a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written thereon, which are those of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel,

at the east three gates, at the north three gates, at the south three gates, at the west three gates;