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	Nave's—Gates

Gates

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