Psalm 147:13

Modern English Version

For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your children within you.

Cross References

Nehemiah 12:30

Then the priests and the Levites purified themselves. They also purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

Nehemiah 6:1

When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and that there was not a gap in it (though at that time I had not erected the doors on the gates),

Nehemiah 7:1

Once the wall was rebuilt and I had erected the doors, the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites were appointed.

Nehemiah 7:3

I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem should not be opened until the sun is hot. Until guards are posted, the doors should be closed and bolted. Likewise, appoint guards from Jerusalem’s inhabitants—each at his post, across from his own house.”

Psalm 125:2

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people, from this time forth and forevermore.

Psalm 144:12

May our sons in their youth be like plants fully grown, our daughters like pillars, sculptured to adorn a palace;

Psalm 51:18

Do good to Zion in Your good pleasure; build the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 33:10

Thus says the Lord: Again there shall be heard in this place of which you say, “It is desolate, without man and without beast,” even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant, and without beast,

Jeremiah 33:11

the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who shall say, “Give thanks to the Lord of Hosts, for the Lord is good; for His mercy endures forever,” and of those who bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord, for I will restore the fortunes of the land as at the first, says the Lord.

Lamentations 4:12

The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:25

“Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until the Prince Messiah shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of trouble.