Gen. 23:10
Now Ephron was sitting among
the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of
the sons of Heth; even of all who went in at the gate of his city…
Gen 34:20 So Hamor and
his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their
city…
Deut. 21:18-21 “If any man
has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother,
and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them, then his father
and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the
gateway of his home town.
“They shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard.’
“Then all the men of his city
shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and
all Israel will hear of it and fear.”
Deut 22:15
[T]hen the girl’s father and
her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity
to the elders of the city at the gate.
Deut 25:7
“But if the man does not desire
to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate
to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for
his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s
brother to me.’”
Josh. 20:4 ‘He shall flee
to one of these cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city
and state his case in the hearing of the elders of that city; and they shall
take him into the city to them and give him a place, so that he may dwell among
them.’
Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz went up to the gate
and sat down there, and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz spoke was passing
by, so he said, “Turn aside, friend, sit down here.” And he turned aside and
sat down.
2 Sam. 15:2 Absalom used
to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate; and when any man had a suit
to come to the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what
city are you?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of
Israel.”
Job 29:
7 “When I went out to the gate of the city,
When I took my seat in the square,
8 The young men saw me and hid themselves,
And the old men arose and stood.
9 The princes stopped talking
And put their hands on their mouths;
10 The voice of the nobles was hushed,
And their tongue stuck to their palate.
11 For when the ear heard, it called me blessed,
And when the eye saw, it gave witness of me,
12 Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.”
Prov 31:
23 Her
husband is known in the gates,
When he sits among the elders of the land.
Jerem 1:15
“For, behold, I am calling all
the families of the kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD; “and they will
come and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,
and against all its walls round about and against all the cities of Judah.
Lament 5:
14 Elders are gone from the gate,
Young men from their music.
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