Judges 3:23
As Ehud went out into the vestibule, he closed the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.
As Ehud went out into the vestibule, he closed the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.
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24When Ehud had left, Eglon’s servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room. They said,“He must be relieving himself in the well-ventilated inner room.”
25They waited so long they were embarrassed, but he still did not open the doors of the upper room. Finally they took the key and opened the doors. Right before their eyes was their master, sprawled out dead on the floor!
26Now Ehud had escaped while they were delaying. When he passed the carved images, he escaped to Seirah.
27When he reached Seirah, he blew a trumpet in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead.
15When the Israelites cried out for help to the LORD, he raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment.
16Ehud made himself a sword– it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.
17He brought the tribute payment to King Eglon of Moab.(Now Eglon was a very fat man.)
18After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it.
19But he went back once he reached the carved images at Gilgal. He said to Eglon,“I have a secret message for you, O king.” Eglon said,“Be quiet!” All his attendants left.
20When Ehud approached him, he was sitting in his well-ventilated upper room all by himself. Ehud said,“I have a message from God for you.” When Eglon rose up from his seat,
21Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s belly.
22The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud did not pull the sword out of his belly.
17He called his personal attendant and said to him,“Take this woman out of my sight and lock the door behind her!”
7Meanwhile the king’s men tried to find them on the road to the Jordan River near the fords. The city gate was shut as soon as they set out in pursuit of them.
33He went in by himself and closed the door. Then he prayed to the LORD.
1The Closed Gate Then he brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces east, but it was shut.
2The LORD said to me:“This gate will be shut; it will not be opened, and no one will enter by it. For the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it will remain shut.
6Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.
21She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s bed. She shut the door behind her and left.
23The outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary each had a double door.
24Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.
7When Saul was told that David had come to Keilah, Saul said,“God has delivered him into my hand, for he has boxed himself into a corner by entering a city with two barred gates.”
10Then I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel. He was confined to his home. He said,“Let’s set up a time to meet in the house of God, within the temple. Let’s close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. It will surely be at night that they will come to kill you.”
20He said to her,“Stand watch at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes along and asks you,‘Is there a man here?’ say,‘No.’”
21Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground while he was asleep from exhaustion, and he died.
32Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. The king sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the leaders,“Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.”
27When her master got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went outside to start on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, sprawled out on the doorstep of the house with her hands on the threshold.
24Then a wind came into me and stood me on my feet. The LORD spoke to me and said,“Go shut yourself in your house.
6Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah worked on the Jeshanah Gate. They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
8The entrance to the bottom level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up to the middle floor and then on up to the third floor.
34He also made two doors out of wood from evergreens; each door had two folding leaves.
5When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left. I don’t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!”
10So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.
1Deborah Summons Barak The Israelites again did evil in the LORD’s sight after Ehud’s death.
3Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, the entrance as 10½ feet, and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet.
13Hanun and the residents of Zanoah worked on the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars, in addition to working on fifteen hundred feet of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.
16as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows(now the windows were covered),
17to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.
12were the chambers which were toward the south. There was an opening at the head of the passage, the passage in front of the corresponding wall toward the east when one enters.
9But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.
3I said to them,“The gates of Jerusalem must not be opened in the early morning, until those who are standing guard close the doors and lock them. Position residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their guard stations and some near their homes.”
11The gatekeepers relayed the news to the royal palace.
18Jael came out to welcome Sisera. She said to him,“Stop and rest, my lord. Stop and rest with me. Don’t be afraid.” So Sisera stopped to rest in her tent, and she put a blanket over him.
1The Glory Returns to the Temple Then he brought me to the gate that faced toward the east.
5So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.
26There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.
15So Samuel lay down until morning. Then he opened the doors of the LORD’s house. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision.
22I will place the key to the house of David on his shoulder. When he opens the door, no one can close it; when he closes the door, no one can open it.
19He posted guards at the gates of the LORD’s temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.
10There were three alcoves on each side of the east gate; the three had the same measurement, and the jambs on either side had the same measurement.