Berechiah and Elkanah were guardians of the ark;

at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:

beside the gates opening into the city, at the entrance of the doorways she cries out:

Open the gates so a righteous nation can enter – one that remains trustworthy.

When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.

4,000 are to be gatekeepers; and 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments I supplied for worship.”

Look up, you gates! Rise up, you eternal doors! Then the majestic king will enter!

Look up, you gates! Rise up, you eternal doors! Then the majestic king will enter!

God chose new leaders, then fighters appeared in the city gates; but, I swear, not a shield or spear could be found, among forty military units in Israel.

Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God; Obed-Edom and Jehiel were also guardians of the ark.

the gates of the city will be named for the tribes of Israel; there will be three gates to the north: one gate for Reuben, one gate for Judah, and one gate for Levi.

Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. They chased the Philistines to the valley and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.

Into his right hand comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.