Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation ¹  Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard. ²  You will take turns guarding the palace. ³ 

The Israelites ¹  hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; ²  they despise anyone who speaks honestly.

This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

When Jehu came through the gate, she said, “Is everything all right, Zimri, murderer of his master?” ¹ 

Now when the young women were being gathered again, ¹  Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate. ² 

His children are far ¹  from safety, and they are crushed ²  at the place where judgment is rendered, ³  nor is there anyone to deliver them. ⁴ 

Wisdom is unattainable ¹  for a fool; in court ²  he does not open his mouth. ³ 

David was thirsty and said, “How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate!”

he serves to this day at the King’s Gate on the east. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the descendants of Levi.

David was thirsty and said, “How I wish someone would give me some water to drink ¹  from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate!”

Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others ¹  will stand in the courtyards of the Lord’s temple.

The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the Lord’s temple. ¹ 

I continued up the valley during the night, inspecting the wall. Then I turned back and came to the Valley Gate, and so returned.

if I have raised my hand ¹  to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court, ² 

Do not exploit ¹  a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court, ² 

those who bear false testimony against a person, ¹  who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate ²  and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges. ³ 

Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

So the king got up and sat at the city gate. When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the city gate, they ¹  all came before him.But the Israelite soldiers ²  had all fled to their own homes. ³ 

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while ¹  Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. ²  When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come ¹  to me.” ²  All the Levites gathered around him,