Psalm 147:13

New American Bible - revised edition

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates, blessed your children within you.

Cross References

Nehemiah 12:30

The priests and Levites first purified themselves, then they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

Nehemiah 6:1

When it had been reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and our other enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and that there was no breach left in it (though up to that time I had not yet set up the doors in the gates),

Nehemiah 7:1

Now that the wall had been rebuilt, I had the doors set up, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites were put in charge of them.

Nehemiah 7:3

I said to them: “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot, and while the sun is still shining they shall shut and bar the doors. Appoint as sentinels the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their watch posts, and others in front of their own houses.” Census of the Province.

Psalm 125:2

As mountains surround Jerusalem, the Lord surrounds his people both now and forever.

Psalm 144:12

May our sons be like plants well nurtured from their youth, Our daughters, like carved columns, shapely as those of the temple.

Psalm 51:18

For you do not desire sacrifice or I would give it; a burnt offering you would not accept.

Jeremiah 33:10

Thus says the Lord: In this place, about which you say: “It is a waste without people or animals!” and in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem now deserted, without people, without inhabitant, without animal, there shall yet be heard

Jeremiah 33:11

the song of joy, the song of gladness, the song of the bridegroom, the song of the bride, the song of those bringing thank offerings to the house of the Lord: “Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good; God’s love endures forever.” For I will restore the fortunes of this land as they were in the beginning, says the Lord.

Lamentations 4:12

The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any of the world’s inhabitants, That foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:25

Know and understand: From the utterance of the word that Jerusalem was to be rebuilt Until there is an anointed ruler, there shall be seven weeks. In the course of sixty-two weeks it shall be rebuilt, With squares and trenches, in time of affliction.