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Acts 12:10Īnd the keeper of the prison was awaked, and saw the gates of the prison opened… -Acts 16:27 Wycliffe Bible When they had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened for them by itself and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel departed from him. 26:9 NKJV) was on the northwest side of the city. The Corner Gate of Jerusalem (2 Kings 14:13 NKJV 2 Chr. Acts 3:2 NASB Gates of Righteousnessīy the “gates of righteousness” we are probably to understand those of the Temple ( Psalm 118:19). Gates of the outer courts of the temple, such as the Beautiful gate of Herod’s templeĪnd a man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order to beg alms of those who were entering the temple. … Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the doorposts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. He carved on it cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the engraved work.
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… -Exodus 40:33 NASBĪnd two doors of cypress wood the two leaves of the one door turned on pivots, and the two leaves of the other door turned on pivots. He erected the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the veil for the gateway of the court. And they kept silent all night, saying, “Let us wait until the morning light, then we will kill him.” Now Samson lay until midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two posts and pulled them up along with the bars then he put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain which is opposite Hebron. When it was told to the Gazites, saying, “Samson has come here,” they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her. Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom.
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1915.All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars… -Deuteronomy 3:5 NASB "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". Its massiveness and magnificence, therefore, well earned for it the name "Beautiful." It was larger than the other gates was 50 cubits in height (the others 40) its weight was so great that it took 20 men to move it (BJ, VI, vi, 3). These were plated with gold and silver, but this still more richly and thickly. Josephus gives many interesting particulars about this gate, which, he tells us, greatly excelled in workmanship and value all the others (BJ, V, v, 3). Its other name, "Corinthian," refers to the costly material of which it was constructed- Corinthian bronze. "The bones of Nicanor the Alexandrian, who made the doors." It received the name "Nicanor" from its being the work, or having been constructed at the expense, of an Alexandrian Jew of this name. The gate itself was of unusual size and splendor. The balance of recent opinion inclines strongly to the former view (compare Kennedy, "Problems of Herod's Temple," The Expositor Times, XX, 170) others take the opposite view (Waterhouse, in Sacred Sites of the Gospels, 110), or leave the question open (thus G. Little dispute exists as to the identification of the Beautiful Gate with the splendid "gate of Nicanor" of the Mishna (Mid., i.4), and "Corinthian Gate" of Josephus (BJ, V, v, 3), but authorities are divided as to whether this gate was situated at the entrance to the women's court on the East, or was the gate reached by 15 steps, dividing that court from the court of the men. This gate of Herod's temple is mentioned in the narrative of the healing of the lame man by Peter and John in Acts 3:2,10. Encyclopedias - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gate, The Beautiful