Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'gates' occurs 161 times in the standard works.

45 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'gates' in the standard works and contain 28% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 18 minutes to read the entire list.

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Rev. 21:12-15 (7 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 48:31-34 (5 in 4 verses)


Neh. 13:19-22 (4 in 4 verses)

 13:19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

 13:20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

 13:21 Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

 13:22 And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.




Jer. 17:24-27 (4 in 4 verses)

Isa. 45:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 14:27-29 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 17:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 28:52 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 40:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 44:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 4:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 12:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 9:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 9:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 11:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 131 1 132
Ex. 1 0 1
Deut. 31 0 31
Josh. 1 0 1
Judg. 2 0 2
1 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 4 0 4
2 Chr. 4 0 4
Neh. 14 0 14
Job 1 0 1
Ps. 11 0 11
Prov. 6 0 6
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 11 1 12
Jer. 16 0 16
Lam. 3 0 3
Ezek. 16 0 16
Obad. 1 0 1
Nahum 2 0 2
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 13 0 13
BM 10 1 11
DC 7 0 7
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 161 2 163

Neh. 1:3
And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

Neh. 2:3
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

Neh. 2:8
And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

Neh. 2:13
And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

Neh. 2:17
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

Neh. 6:1
Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)

Neh. 7:3
And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.

Neh. 11:19
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.

Neh. 12:25
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.

Neh. 12:30
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Neh. 13:19
And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

Neh. 13:22
And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.