2 Samuel 15:2

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgement, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

Cross References

Genesis 34:20

Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

2 Samuel 19:8

Then the king arose and sat in the gate. The people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

2 Chronicles 10:7

They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

Job 24:14

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

Exodus 18:14

When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?”

Exodus 18:16

When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbour, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”

Exodus 18:26

They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Proverbs 4:16

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Daniel 11:21

“In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honour of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

Matthew 27:1

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Yeshua to put him to death.

Deuteronomy 17:8

If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgement, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

Ruth 4:1

Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.