Bible Dictionary: Gates of Cities: Chief Points of Attack in War

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Judges 5:8
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
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Isaiah 22:7
And it shall come to pass, that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
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Ezekiel 21:15
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
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Library

Sargon of Assyria (722-705 BC )
... The buildings of Sargon: Dur-sharrukin"The gates and walls ... did not dare to interfere,
the two cities were taken ... late, and the fate of their chief, far from ...
/.../chapter iiisargon of assyria 722-705.htm

The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
... and built into the wall near the gates of his ... this region, the Sheikhan-Su, which
waters Savur, chief town of ... according as one or other of these cities was in ...
/.../chapter ithe assyrian revival and.htm

Chapter xiv
... made somewhat of a circuit around the chief rebels and ... not mean that one king governed
both cities but is ... actually taken up residence within its gates"a very ...
//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xiv.htm

The Burning of Athens.
... There is a catalogue of twelve cities in this valley ... gaining admission, and then
opened the gates to their ... attainment of what had been the chief and prominent ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter x the burning of.htm

Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire ...
... of his office one of the chief ministers of ... Borsippa, Kuta, Kishu, Dilbat, and Uruk,
"cities without peer ... to resist the Assyrians, and opened their gates to them ...
/.../chapter iitiglath-pileser iii and the.htm

The Conquest of Lydia.
... Their chief city was Sparta, in the Peloponnesus ... He sent immediately to the neighboring
cities, summoning all ... crowded in vast throngs through the gates into the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/cyrus the great/chapter vii the conquest of.htm

The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
... it to the first rank among the Phoenician cities. ... At another time we find the same
chief plotting with ... the arrows towards the four cardinal points, which she ...
/.../chapter iithe power of assyria 2.htm

Sennacherib (705-681 BC )
... of the army: Babylon threw open its gates without resistance ... of Ekron, dissatisfied
with Padi, the chief whom the ... had just captured, and the cities of Ekrbn ...
/.../chapter isennacherib 705-681 b c.htm

The Old Testament and Archeology
... against him [and] whosoever came out of the gates of the ... to believe that the list
of the cities alleged to ... In many cases the chief purpose seems to have been ...
/.../the christian view of the old testament/chapter iv the old testament.htm

Ancient Chaldaea
... The gates of heaven are mentioned in the account ... only range which at certain points
reaches the ... forward state of civilization.* Their chief cities were divided ...
/.../chapter iancient chaldaea.htm