When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.
Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. Wh
Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boa
His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
Her husband is known at the city gates, where he sits among the elders of the land.
When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set