Psalm 147:13

New Century Version

He makes your city gates strong and blesses your children inside.

Cross References

Nehemiah 12:30

The priests and Levites made themselves pure, and they also made the people, the gates, and the wall of Jerusalem pure.

Nehemiah 6:1

Then Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and our other enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and that there was not one gap in it. But I had not yet set the doors in the gates.

Nehemiah 7:1

After the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place, the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites were chosen.

Nehemiah 7:3

I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem should not be opened until the sun is hot. While the gatekeepers are still on duty, have them shut and bolt the doors. Appoint people who live in Jerusalem as guards, and put some at guard posts and some near their own houses.”

Psalm 125:2

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

Psalm 144:12

Let our sons in their youth grow like plants. Let our daughters be like the decorated stones in the Temple.

Psalm 51:18

Do whatever good you wish for Jerusalem. Rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 33:10

“You are saying, ‘Our country is an empty desert, without people or animals.’ But this is what the Lord says: It is now quiet in the streets of Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, without people or animals, but it will be noisy there soon!

Jeremiah 33:11

There will be sounds of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of brides and bridegrooms. There will be the sounds of people bringing to the Temple of the Lord their offerings of thanks to the Lord. They will say, ‘Praise the Lord All-Powerful, because the Lord is good! His love continues forever!’ They will say this because I will again do good things for Judah, as I did in the beginning,” says the Lord.

Lamentations 4:12

Kings of the earth and people of the world could not believe that enemies and foes could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:25

“Learn and understand these things. A command will come to rebuild Jerusalem. The time from this command until the appointed leader comes will be forty-nine years and four hundred thirty-four years. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and a trench filled with water around it, but it will be built in times of trouble.