Bible Verses about “gatekeepers”

“Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.”

“Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,”

“Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.”

“and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.”

“But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.”

“Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.”

“For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.”

“let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.”

“Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,”

“Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.”

“Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.”

“Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.”

“Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.”

“You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.”

“You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.”

“He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.”

“The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.”

“Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.”

“You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.”

“Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.”

“Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.”

“I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,”

“Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.”

“All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.”

“Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the Tent of Meeting.”

“So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, by wards.”

“On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.”

“and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”

“Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, [and] Yahweh was with him.”

“Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, "Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:”

“but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary."”

“Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Cast up, cast up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.”

“who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.”

“Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers of the entry.”

“The porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),”

“Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:”

“for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in the house of God.”

“They lodged around the house of God, because that duty was on them; and to them pertained its opening morning by morning.”

“So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, "We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were."”

“"Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.”

“four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, for giving praise."”

“For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.”

“Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,”

“Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh.”

“Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth,”

“Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.”

“Also to Shemaiah his son were sons born, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.”

“The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.”

“All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom.”

“Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen.”