GATES

ancient cities: it-1 865-866, 892-893; w10 6/1 15; w91 8/15 30; w89 4/1 22

Babylon: it-1 645; it-2 322; w11 11/1 12

court situated at: it-1 518

“gate of Bath-rabbim” (Ca 7:4): it-1 263

Megiddo, Hazor, and Gezer, from Solomon’s time: it-1 158, 866, 928, 1049-1050; it-2 365; w88 8/15 24-26; w86 2/15 23

bars: it-1 645

Bible usage: it-1 892, 897-898

bolts: it-1 645; it-2 260

Jerusalem (ancient): it-1 893-897; w98 10/15 23

Damascus Gate: it-2 949

Gate of the Ash-heaps (Gate of the Potsherds, Dung Gate): it-1 658, 894-896

Solomon’s day: it-1 752

temple: it-1 897; it-2 1079

Valley of Hinnom: it-1 1120

“needle’s eye” not a gate: it-2 483-484; w92 11/15 32

wilderness camp: it-1 893

Symbolic

Ezekiel’s visionary city (Eze 48): rr 222, 224

Ezekiel’s visionary temple: it-2 1082; rr 149, 152-153, 156-157; kr 108-109, 114, 117; w99 3/1 13-14

porches: it-2 655

“gates of Hades” (Mt 16:18): it-1 897-898, 1016

“narrow gate” (Mt 7:13, 14): w90 10/1 23

applies principally to heavenly hope: w90 3/15 31

New Jerusalem: it-1 898; re 306-308, 315-317

“open the gates” (Isa 26:2): w95 1/1 10-11, 16

‘your gates will be kept open’ (Isa 60:11): w02 7/1 13-14; ip-2 311-314