Psalms 147:13

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For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

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Psalms 128:3–6Rank 1 from verse 13
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³Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
⁴Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
⁵The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
⁶Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.
Isaiah 44:3–5Rank 2 from verse 13
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³For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
⁴And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
⁵One shall say, I am the Lord’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Psalms 115:14–15Rank 3 from verse 13
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¹⁴The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
¹⁵Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.
Jeremiah 30:19–20Rank 4 from verse 13
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¹⁹And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
²⁰Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
Psalms 144:12Rank 5 from verse 13
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¹²That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Psalms 125:2Rank 6 from verse 13
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²As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Lamentations 2:8–9Rank 7 from verse 13
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⁸The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
⁹Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath 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.
Nehemiah 12:30Rank 8 from verse 13
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³⁰And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
Nehemiah 3:1–16Rank 9 from verse 13
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¹THEN Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
²And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.
³But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
⁴And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
⁵And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.
⁶Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
⁷And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.
⁸Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.
⁹And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.
¹⁰And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah.
¹¹Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
¹²And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
¹³The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.
¹⁴But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
¹⁵But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
¹⁶After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
Psalms 48:11–14Rank 10 from verse 13
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¹¹Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
¹²Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
¹³Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
Zechariah 8:3–5Rank 11 from verse 13
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³Thus saith the Lord; I am returned unto 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.
⁴Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
⁵And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Lamentations 4:12Rank 12 from verse 13
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¹²The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 6:1Rank 13 from verse 13
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¹NOW it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
Nehemiah 7:1Rank 14 from verse 13
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¹NOW it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
Psalms 51:18Rank 15 from verse 13
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¹⁸Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 7:3Rank 16 from verse 13
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³And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.
Luke 19:42–44Rank 17 from verse 13
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⁴²Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
⁴³For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
⁴⁴And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Daniel 9:25Rank 18 from verse 13
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²⁵Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.