Bible Dictionary: Gates of Cities: Courts of Justice Held At

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Deuteronomy 16:18
Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
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2 Samuel 15:2
And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, Of what city are you? And he said, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
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Proverbs 22:22,23
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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Library

Instructed in the Law of God
... wall of Jerusalem had been rebuilt and the gates set up ... It was proclaimed "in all
their cities, and in Jerusalem ... and in their courts, and in the courts of the ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 56 instructed in the.htm

The Persecutions of the Church.
... as the pagan oaths administered in the courts of justice ... made throughout the streets
of the cities, and men ... The city gates were guarded that none might escape ...
/.../killen/the ancient church/chapter ii the persecutions of.htm

Justinian.
... The state in which several gates remain to this day still show his ... the bishops began
to take part in the courts of justice of their own cities, as well ...
/.../allies/the formation of christendom volume vi/chapter iv justinian.htm

St. Gregory the Great.
... he who day by day guarded the gates of defenceless ... reigned in the discontented or
independent cities of Gaul ... They placed her bishops in their courts of justice ...
/.../allies/the formation of christendom volume vi/chapter v st gregory the.htm

Fast-Day Service
... We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,. ... Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise. ...
Thou didst rain hell out of heaven upon the cities of the plain. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/fast-day service.htm

The Doctrine of the Last Things.
... differ in spiritual gains and rewards (ten cities, five cities). ... In courts of justice
in those days a black ... Its Gates (21:15, 21): guarded by angels; names on ...
/.../evans/the great doctrines of the bible/the doctrine of the last.htm

Causes of the Reformation
... at the expense of the lower nobility, the cities, and the ... of obtaining justice in
the ordinary courts of law ... abuses which flourished at the very gates of their ...
/.../chapter i causes of the.htm

The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
... in which he had been accustomed to sit and administer justice. ... and it was there that
her sacred cities"Tyana, Venasa ... with one or other of the courts on the ...
/.../chapter iithe power of assyria 2.htm

Jewish Homes
... The gates opened upon large squares, on which the ... the streets were wider than those
of modern Eastern cities. ... to have windows looking into the courts or rooms ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 6 jewish homes.htm

India's Ills and England's Sorrows
... attended with all the horrid guilt of the cities of the ... such places; they seem to
be the gates of hell ... was bravely plaintive, sitting down in the courts of the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/indias ills and englands sorrows.htm