Bible Dictionary: Gates: Made to Rivers

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Nahum 2:6
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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Psalm XXIV.
... 622] founded above the seas, and prepared above the rivers? ... not, the entrances which
ye have made, of desire ... "And be ye lift up, ye everlasting gates." And be ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xxiv.htm

Psalm CVII.
... fulness, and not rather see that they would die of satiety: "And they came near,"
he saith, "even unto the gates of death ... "He made the rivers a wilderness ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm cvii.htm

Nahum's Doom of Nineveh
... The shield of his mighty men is made red: The valiant men are in scarlet: The chariots
flash with steel in the day of his ... The gates of the rivers are opened ...
/.../select masterpieces of biblical literature/xi nahums doom of nineveh.htm

The Son is of one Substance with the Father. ...
... cxxxix. 14. "My bones were not hid from Thee, when I was made in secret, [when ... Et
miles captivus adductus est." RV--"The gates of the rivers are opened and ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xiv the son is.htm

On the Words Incarnate, and Made Man.
... not even if it be planted in the midst of rivers? ... He was by advance made God, from
being made by nature ... Lord, at Whom the keepers of hell's gates shuddered and ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture xii on the words.htm

The Washing Away of Sins is Indicated by the White Robes of the ...
... And whilst some said "Lift up your gates, O princes ... the image of God in the Whose
image thou wast made. ... which many waters cannot quench, nor many rivers drown. ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter vii the washing away.htm

The New Jerusalem.
... wife, although before referred to, is again made the subject ... call thy walls Salvation,
and thy gates Praise. ... Rivers of gladness water all the Earth, And clothe ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the new jerusalem.htm

The Conquest of Babylon.
... They used for all this masonry a cement made from a ... quantities floating down one
of the rivers which flowed ... These openings were secured by gates of brass, which ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/cyrus the great/chapter viii the conquest of.htm

Of the Situation of Britain and Ireland, and of their Ancient
... snails, of which the scarlet dye is made, a most ... hot springs, and from them flow
rivers which furnish ... all strongly secured with walls, towers, gates, and bars. ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap i of the situation.htm

On the Incarnation and Redemption
... home God has prepared for us, and its gates are His ... A. The Son of God was conceived
and made man by ... springs of water broke forth, and all the rivers and lakes ...
/.../kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 7 on the incarnation.htm