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Simon, on his part, built up the strongholds of Judea, strengthening their fortifications with high towers, thick walls, and gates with bars, and he stored up provisions in the fortresses. (1 Maccabees 13, 33)
He ordered him to move his troops against Judea and to fortify Kedron and strengthen its gates, so that he could launch attacks against the Jewish people. Meanwhile the king went in pursuit of Trypho. (1 Maccabees 15, 39)
Women, girded with sackcloth below their breasts, filled the streets; maidens secluded indoors ran together, some to the gates, some to the walls, others peered through the windows, (2 Maccabees 3, 19)
While celebrating the victory in their ancestral city, they burned both those who had set fire to the sacred gates and Callisthenes, who had taken refuge in a little house; so he received the reward his wicked deeds deserved. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
Others who climbed up the same way swung around on the defenders, taking the besieged in the rear; they put the towers to the torch, spread the fire and burned the blasphemers alive. Still others broke down the gates and let in the rest of the troops, who took possession of the city. (2 Maccabees 10, 36)
When the gates of the town were shut, he withdrew, intending to come back later and wipe out the entire population of Joppa. (2 Maccabees 12, 7)
Down the crowded ways she calls out, at the city gates she utters her words: (Proverbs 1, 21)
By the gates at the approaches of the city, in the entryways she cries aloud: (Proverbs 8, 3)
Happy the man watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts; (Proverbs 8, 34)
Evil men must bow down before the good, and the wicked, at the gates of the just. (Proverbs 14, 19)
Her husband is prominent at the city gates as he sits with the elders of the land. (Proverbs 31, 23)
Give her a reward of her labors, and let her works praise her at the city gates. (Proverbs 31, 31)
