Haller's Concordance: GATES
- I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies. Gen. 22:17
- Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies. Gen. 24:60
- But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates. Ex. 20:10
- All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and bars, besides innumerable towns that had no walls. Dt. 3:5
- The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as thyself. Dt. 5:14
- But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam. Dt. 14:21
- And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession. Dt. 14:27
- The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates. Dt. 14:28
- And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do. Dt. 14:29
- If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within thy gates of thy city in the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand, Dt. 15:7
- But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean and the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart. Dt. 15:22
- And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there: Dt. 16:11
- And thou shalt make merry in thy festival time, thou, thy son, and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maidservant, the Levite also and the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow that are within thy gates. Dt. 16:14
- Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment, Dt. 16:18
- When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant, Dt. 17:2
- Thou shalt bring forth the man or the woman, who have committed that most wicked thing, to the gates of thy city, and they shall be stoned. Dt. 17:5
- If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose. Dt. 17:8
- If they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the people that are therein, shall be saved, and shall serve thee paying tribute. Dt. 20:11
- Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor, whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates: Dt. 24:14
- When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in the third year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled: Dt. 26:12
- And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high walls be brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will give thee: Dt. 28:52
- So that he will not give them of the flesh of his children, which he shall eat: because he hath nothing else in the siege and the want, wherewith thy enemies shall distress thee within all thy gates. Dt. 28:55
- And the filth of the afterbirths, that come forth from between her thighs, and the children that are born the same hour. For they shall eat them secretly for the want of all things, in the siege and distress, wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates. Dt. 28:57
- And the people being all assembled together, both men and women, children and strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and keep, and fulfil all the words of this law: Dt. 31:12
- Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up and build the city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the foundation thereof, and in the last of his children set up its gates. Josu. 6:26
- The Lord chose new wars, and he himself overthrew the gates of the enemies: a shield and spear was not seen among forty thousand of Israel. Judg. 5:8
- Where the chariots were dashed together, and the army of the enemies was choked, there let the justices of the Lord be rehearsed, and his clemency towards the brave men of Israel: then the people of the Lord went down to the gates, and obtained the sovereignty. Judg. 5:11
- The children of Benjamin sallied forth out of the gates of Gabaa: and meeting them, made so great a slaughter of them, as to kill eighteen thousand men that drew the sword. Judg. 20:25
- Fear not therefore, but whatsoever thou shalt say to me I will do to thee. For all the people that dwell within the gates of my city, know that thou art a virtuous woman. Ruth 3:11
- And the men of Israel and Juda rising up shouted, and pursued after the Philistines till they came to the valley and to the gates of Accaron, and there fell many wounded of the Philistines in the way of Saraim, and as far as Geth, and as far as Accaron. 1 Ki. 17:52
- And it was told Saul that David was come to Ceila: and Saul said: The Lord hath delivered him into my hands, and he is shut up, being come into a city that hath gates and bars. 1 Ki. 23:7
- And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman that was on the top of the gate upon the wall, lifting up his eyes, saw a man running alone. 2 Ki. 18:24
- If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence, or corrupt air, or blasting, or locust, or mildew; if their enemy afflict them, besieging the gates, whatsoever plague, whatsoever infirmity, 3 Ki. 8:37
- In his days Hiel, of Bethel, built Jericho: in Abiram, his firstborn, he laid its foundations: and in his youngest son, Segub, he set up the gates thereof: according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Josue, the son of Nun. 3 Ki. 16:34
- And he gathered together all the priests out of the cities of Juda: and he defiled the high places, where the priests offered sacrifice, from Gabaa to Bersabee: and he broke down the altars of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Josue, governor of the city, which was on the left hand of the gate of the city. 4 Ki. 23:8
- But Sellum the son of Core, the son of Abiasaph, the son of Core, with his brethren and his father's house, the Corites were over the works of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their families in turns were keepers of the entrance of the camp of the Lord. 1 Par. 9:19
- All these that were chosen to be porters at the gates, were two hundred and twelve: and they were registered in their proper towns: whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their trust. 1 Par. 9:22
- As well them as their sons, to keep the gates of the house of the Lord, and the tabernacle by their turns. 1 Par. 9:23
- And they abode in their watches round about the temple of the Lord: that when it was time, they might open the gates in the morning. 1 Par. 9:27
- And David prepared in abundance iron for the nails of the gates, and for the closures and joinings: and of brass an immense weight. 1 Par. 22:3
- And they cast lots equally, both little and great, by their families for every one of the gates. 1 Par. 26:13
- And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, walled cities with gates and bars and locks. 2 Par. 8:5
- And he said to Juda: Let us build these cities, and compass them with walls, and fortify them with towers, and gates, and bars, while all is quiet from wars, because we have sought the Lord the God of our fathers, and he hath given us peace round about. So they built, and there was no hinderance in building. 2 Par. 14:7
- A third part of you that come to the sabbath, of the priests, and of the Levites, and of the porters shall be at the gates: and a third part at the king's house: and a third at the gate that is called the Foundation: but let all the rest of the people be in the courts of the house of the Lord. 2 Par. 23:5
- He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord, that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in. 2 Par. 23:19
- And Ezechias appointed companies of the priests, and the Levites, by their courses, every man in his own office, to wit, both of the priests, and of the Levites, for holocausts, and for peace offerings, to minister, and to praise, and to sing in the gates of the camp of the Lord. 2 Par. 31:2
- And they said to me: They that have remained, and are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction, and reproach: and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire. 2 Esd. 1:3
- And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire? 2 Esd. 2:3
- And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, to give me timber that I may cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the walls of the city, and the house that I shall enter into. And the king gave me according to the good hand of my God with me. 2 Esd. 2:8
- And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the dragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of Jerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were consumed with fire. 2 Esd. 2:13
- Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach. 2 Esd. 2:17
- ¤ And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,) 2 Esd. 6:1
- And I said to them: Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened till the sun be hot. And while they were yet standing by the gates were shut, and barred: and I set watchmen of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one by their courses, and every man over against his house. 2 Esd. 7:3
- Mathania, and Becbecia, Obedia, and Mosollam, Telmon, Accub, were keepers of the gates and of the entrances before the gates. 2 Esd. 12:25
- And the priests and the Levites were purified, and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. 2 Esd. 12:30
- And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem were at rest on the sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I commanded that they should not open them till after the sabbath: and I set some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in burthens on the sabbath day. 2 Esd. 13:19
- I spoke also to the Levites that they should be purified, and should come to keep the gates, and to sanctify the sabbath day: for this also remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. 2 Esd. 13:22
- The gates of Jerusalem shall be built of sapphire, and of emerald, and all the walls thereof round about of precious stones. Tob. 13:21
- And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the towers: Jud. 1:3
- But Judith praying to the Lord, passed through the gates, she and her maid. Jud. 10:10
- And Judith from afar off cried to the watchmen upon the walls: Open the gates for God is with us, who hath shewn his power in Israel. Jud. 13:13
- And the king said to him: Make haste and take the robe and the horse, and do as thou hast spoken to Mardochai the Jew, who sitteth before the gates of the palace. Beware thou pass over any of those things which thou hast spoken. Esther 6:10
- For which crime both he himself that devised it, and all his kindred hang on gibbets, before the gates of this city Susan: not we, but God repaying him as he deserved. Esther 16:18
- Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors? Job 38:17
- Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion. Ps. 9:14
- Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in. Ps. 24:7
- Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in. Ps. 24:9
- But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion. Ps. 73:28
- They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down. Ps. 74:6
- The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob. Ps. 87:2
- Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and give glory to him. Praise ye his name: Ps. 100:4
- Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars. Ps. 107:16
- Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death. Ps. 107:18
- Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go in to them, and give praise to the Lord. Ps. 118:19
- Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee. Ps. 147:13
- At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying: Pr. 1:21
- Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying: Pr. 8:3
- Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. Pr. 8:34
- The evil shall fall down before the good: and the wicked before the gates of the just. Pr. 14:19
- Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land. Pr. 31:23
- Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates. Pr. 31:31
- The mandrakes give a smell. In our gates are all fruits: the new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for thee. Cant. 7:13
- For it is thou, O Lord, that hast power of life and death, and leadest down to the gates of death, and bringest back again: Wis. 16:13
- And let Nehemias be a long time remembered, who raised up for us our walls that were cast down, and set up the gates and the bars, who rebuilt our houses. Sir. 49:15
- Out of the hands of them that sought my life, and from the gates of afflictions, which compassed me about: Sir. 51:5
- And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground. Isa. 3:26
- Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates. Isa. 13:2
- Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates. Isa. 24:12
- Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the truth, enter in. Isa. 26:2
- I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years. Isa. 38:10
- ¤ Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut. Isa. 45:1
- I will go before thee, and will humble the great ones of the earth: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and will burst the bars of iron. Isa. 45:2
- And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones. Isa. 54:12
- And thy gates shall be open continually: they shall not be shut day nor night, that the strength of the Gentiles may be brought to thee, and their kings may be brought. Isa. 60:11
- Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess thy walls, and praise thy gates. Isa. 60:18
- Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people, make the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift up the standard to the people. Isa. 62:10
- For behold I will call together all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord: and they shall come, and shall set every one his throne in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon all the walls thereof round about, and upon all the cities of Juda. Jer. 1:15
- Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord. Jer. 2:12
- Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there this word, and say: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that enter in at these gates, to adore the Lord. Jer. 7:2
- Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen, and are become obscure on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. Jer. 14:2
- And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the land: I have killed and destroyed my people, and yet they are not returned from their ways. Jer. 15:7
- Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Juda come in, and go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem: Jer. 17:19
- And thou shalt say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and all Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates. Jer. 17:20
- Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your souls, and carry no burdens on the sabbath day: and bring them not in by the gates of Jerusalem. Jer. 17:21
- And it shall come to pass: if you will hearken to me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burdens by the gates of this city on the sabbath day: and if you will sanctify the sabbath day, to do no work therein: Jer. 17:24
- Then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes, sitting upon the throne of David, and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever. Jer. 17:25
- But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath day, and not to carry burdens, and not to bring them in by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched. Jer. 17:27
- And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Juda, that sittest upon the throne of David: thou and thy servants, and thy people, who enter in by these gates. Jer. 22:2
- For if you will do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house, kings of the race of David sitting upon his throne, and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants, and their people. Jer. 22:4
- He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem. Jer. 22:19
- Arise, and go up to a nation that is at ease, and that dwelleth securely, saith the Lord: they have neither gates, nor bars: they dwell alone. Jer. 49:31
- Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon shall be utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire, and the labours of the people shall come to nothing, and of the nations shall go to the fire, and shall perish. Jer. 51:58
- Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; her virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness. Lam. 1:4
- Teth. Her 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, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord. Lam. 2:9
- Lamed. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed, that the adversary and the enemy should enter in by the gates of Jerusalem. Lam. 4:12
- The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers. Lam. 5:14
- And as the gates are made sure on every side upon one that hath offended the king, or like a dead man carried to the grave, so do the priests secure the doors with bars and locks, lest they be stripped by thieves. Bar. 6:17
- And languish in heart, and that multiplieth ruins. In all their gates I have set the dread of the sharp sword, the sword that is furbished to glitter, that is made ready for slaughter. Ezec. 21:15
- On his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up the voice in howling, to set engines against the gates, to cast up a mount, to build forts. Ezec. 21:22
- Son of man, because Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, the gates of the people are broken, she is turned to me: I shall be filled, now she is laid waste. Ezec. 26:2
- By reason of the multitude of his horses, their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and wheels, and chariots, when they shall go in at thy gates, as by the entrance of a city that is destroyed. Ezec. 26:10
- And thou shalt say: I will go up to the land which is without a wall, I will come to them that are at rest, and dwell securely: all these dwell without a wall, they have no bars nor gates: Ezec. 38:11
- And the pavement in the front of the gates according to the length of the gates was lower. Ezec. 40:18
- And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust. Ezec. 40:38
- They shall be officers in my sanctuary, and doorkeepers of the gates of the house, and ministers to the house: they shall slay the holocausts, and the victims of the people: and they shall stand in their sight, to minister to them. Ezec. 44:11
- And when they shall enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments: neither shall any woollen come upon them, when they minister in the gates of the inner court and within. Ezec. 44:17
- And the gates of the city according to the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates on the north side, the gate of Ruben one, the gate of Juda one, the gate of Levi one. Ezec. 48:31
- And at the east side, four thousand and five hundred: and three gates, the gate of Joseph one, the gate of Benjamin one, the gate of Dan one. Ezec. 48:32
- And at the south side, thou shalt measure four thousand and five hundred: and three gates, the gate of Simeon one, the gate of Issachar one, the gate of Zabulon one. Ezec. 48:33
- And at the west side, four thousand and five hundred, and their three gates, the gate of Gad one, the gate of Aser one, the gate of Nephthali one. Ezec. 48:34
- In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them. Abd. 1:11
- The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple is thrown down to the ground. Nah. 2:6
- Behold thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open to thy enemies, the fire shall devour thy bars. Nah. 3:13
- These then are the things, which you shall do: Speak ye truth every one to his neighbour; judge ye truth and judgment of peace in your gates. Zach. 8:16
- ¤ Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars. Zach. 11:1
- And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down. 1 Ma. 4:38
- And they adorned the front of the temple with crowns of gold, and escutcheons, and they renewed the gates, and the chambers, and hanged doors upon them. 1 Ma. 4:57
- And they that were in the city shut themselves in, and stopped up the gates with stones: and Judas sent to them with peaceable words, 1 Ma. 5:47
- And they built strong cities in Judea, the fortress that was in Jericho, and in Ammaus, and in Bethoron, and in Bethel, and Thamnata, and Phara, and Thopo, with high walls, and gates, and bars. 1 Ma. 9:50
- And they that were in the city being affrighted, opened the gates to him: so Jonathan took Joppe. 1 Ma. 10:76
- And Simon built Adiada in Sephela, and fortified it, and set up gates and bars. 1 Ma. 12:38
- Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates of the city, and took him: and all them that came in with him they slew with the sword. 1 Ma. 12:48
- And Simon built up the strong holds of Judea, fortifying them with high towers, and great walls, and gates and bars: and he stored up victuals in the fortresses. 1 Ma. 13:33
- And he commanded him to march with his army towards Judea: and he commanded him to build up Gedor, and to fortify the gates of the city, and to war against the people. But the king himself pursued after Tryphon. 1 Ma. 15:39
- And when they kept the feast of the victory at Jerusalem, they burnt Callisthenes, that had set fire to the holy gates, who had taken refuge in a certain house, rendering to him a worthy reward for his impieties: 2 Ma. 8:33
- Moreover, others also getting up after them, went to set fire to the towers and the gates, and to burn the blasphemers alive. 2 Ma. 10:36
- And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Mt. 16:18
- But their laying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night, that they might kill him. Acts 9:24
- And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. Apoc. 21:12
- On the east, three gates: and on the north, three gates: and on the south, three gates: and on the west, three gates. Apoc. 21:13
- And he that spoke with me had a measure of a reed of gold, to measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall. Apoc. 21:15
- And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, one to each: and every several gate was of one several pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were, transparent glass. Apoc. 21:21
- And the gates thereof shall not be shut by day: for there shall be no night there. Apoc. 21:25
- Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city. Apoc. 22:14
- And he wrote to al the Iewes which went vp from the kingdome into Iurie for libertie, euerie mightie man, & magistrate, & ouerseer not to come vpon them to their gates, 3 Esd. 4:49
- and thy glorie passed foure gates of fire, and of earthquake, and winde, and frost, that thou mightst geue a law to the seede of Iacob, and to the generation of Israel diligence. 4 Esd. 3:19