Psalms 147:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.

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  • Ps 115:14-15 : 14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children. 15 You are blessed by the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
  • Isa 44:3-5 : 3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my Spirit upon your descendants, and my blessing upon your offspring: 4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses. 5 One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
  • Ps 128:3-6 : 3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your children like olive plants around your table. 4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD. 5 The LORD shall bless you out of Zion; and you shall see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. 6 Yes, you shall see your children's children, and peace upon Israel.
  • Jer 30:19-20 : 19 And out of them shall come thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 20 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.
  • Ps 144:12 : 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
  • Ps 125:2 : 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people from now on and forevermore.
  • Neh 3:1-9 : 1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it and set up its doors; even to the tower of Meah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananeel. 2 And next to him built the men of Jericho. And next to them built Zaccur the son of Imri. 3 But the fish gate was built by the sons of Hassenaah, who also laid its beams, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars. 4 Next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next to them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next to them repaired Zadok the son of Baana. 5 And next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles did not put their necks to the work of their Lord. 6 Moreover the old gate was repaired by Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its locks, and its bars. 7 And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, to the throne of the governor on this side of the river. 8 Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next to him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem to the broad wall. 9 And next to them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half of Jerusalem. 10 And next to them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even opposite his house. And next to him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah. 11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired another section, and the tower of the furnaces. 12 And next to him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of half of Jerusalem, he and his daughters. 13 The valley gate was repaired by Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and a thousand cubits on the wall to the dung gate. 14 But the dung gate was repaired by Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars. 15 But the fountain gate was repaired by Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, covered it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and to the stairs that descend from the city of David. 16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half of Bethzur, to the place opposite the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was constructed, and to the house of the mighty.
  • Neh 6:1 : 1 Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall, and there was no gap in it; (though at that time I had not set up the doors on the gates;)
  • Neh 7:1 : 1 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and the Levites were appointed,
  • Neh 7:3 : 3 And I said to them, Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they are standing by, let them shut and bar the doors: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one opposite his house.
  • Neh 12:30 : 30 The priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
  • Ps 48:11-14 : 11 Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of Your judgments. 12 Walk about Zion, and go all around her; count her towers. 13 Consider well her ramparts, observe her palaces; that you may tell it to the generation following. 14 For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even unto death.
  • Ps 51:18 : 18 Do good in your good pleasure to Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Lam 2:8-9 : 8 The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: He has stretched out a line, He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying: therefore He made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
  • Lam 4:12 : 12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
  • Dan 9:25 : 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times.
  • Zech 8:3-5 : 3 Thus says the LORD; I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain. 4 Thus says the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, each with his staff in his hand because of great age. 5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
  • Luke 19:42-44 : 42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side, 44 And will level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.

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