Topic
Doors
13 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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- Exodus 26:31–33Easton
¶ And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four…
- Exodus 26:36Easton
And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
- Judges 3:23Easton
Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
- Judges 3:25Easton
And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
- Judges 16:3Easton
And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
- Job 38:10Easton
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
- Proverbs 26:14Easton
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
- Song of Songs 5:5Easton
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
- John 10:9Easton
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
- 1 Corinthians 16:9Easton
For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
- 2 Corinthians 2:12Easton
Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
- Colossians 4:3Easton
Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
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- Revelation 4:1 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 13 references
Moved on pivots of wood fastened in sockets above and below (Prov. 26:14). They were fastened by a lock (Judg. 3:23, 25; Cant. 5:5) or by a bar (Judg. 16:3; Job 38:10). In the interior of Oriental houses, curtains were frequently used instead of doors.
The entrances of the tabernacle had curtains (Ex. 26:31-33, 36). The “valley of Achor” is called a “door of hope,” because immediately after the execution of Achan the Lord said to Joshua, “Fear not,” and from that time Joshua went forward in a career of uninterrupted conquest. Paul speaks of a “door opened” for the spread of the gospel (1 Cor. 16:9; 2 Cor. 2:12; Col. 4:3). Our Lord says of himself, “I am the door” (John 10:9). John (Rev. 4:1) speaks of a “door opened in heaven.”
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.