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Corner Gate

Corner Gate (Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E): Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Kgs 14:13 , 2 Chr 25:23 , 2 Chr 26:9 , Jer 31:38 , Zech 14:10 (identified with Jerusalem ). It is closely linked with Sheep Gate (Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E): Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 3:1 , Neh 3:32 , Neh 12:39 , John 5:2 (identified with Jerusalem).

Biblical Geography & Sacred Architecture

Key geographical locations connected to this topic include Corner Gate (Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Kgs 14:13 , 2 Chr 25:23 , 2 Chr 26:9 , Jer 31:38 , Zech 14:10 (identified with Jerusalem ).) Sheep Gate (Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 3:1 , Neh 3:32 , Neh 12:39 , John 5:2 (identified with Jerusalem ).) Dung Gate (KMZ: Dung Gate . Referenced in Neh 2:13 , Neh 3:13 , Neh 3:14 , Neh 12:31 .) Horse Gate (Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 3:28 , Jer 31:40 (identified with Jerusalem).) 3D Sanctuary Reconstructions: Ishtar Gate of Babylon — Monumental double gate on the northern wall of inner Babylon constructed by King Nebuchadnezzar II around 575 BC during the era of Daniel and the Judean exile, clad in brilliant cobalt-blue glazed bricks embossed with alternating rows of golden lions, bulls (aurochs), and dragons (mušḫuššu). Persian Lamassu (Gate of All Nations) — Colossal carved limestone winged human-headed bull (Lamassu) guarding the Gate of All Nations built by King Xerxes I (biblical Ahasuerus of the Book of Esther and Ezra 4:6 ) at Persepolis, exemplifying the imperial Achaemenid court architecture of Esther , Ezra , and Nehemiah .

Scripture Witness (KJV) & Canonical Context

Primary KJV scripture witnesses include 2 Chronicles 26:9 : "Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them."; Nehemiah 3:32 : "And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants."; Jeremiah 31:38 : "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.". Related canonical books and chapters: Ezekiel 11 ( Ezekiel • Chapter 11 (25 verses)), 2 Chronicles 26 ( 2 Chronicles • Chapter 26 (23 verses)), Ezekiel 46 ( Ezekiel • Chapter 46 (24 verses)).

Connected Topics & Entities Book/Chapter Verse Person Place Lexicon Theology Commentary

Topics, People & Places (36)

Corner Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Kgs 14:13 , 2 Chr 25:23 , 2 Chr 26:9 , Jer 31:38 , Zech 14:10 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Sheep Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 3:1 , Neh 3:32 , Neh 12:39 , John 5:2 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Dung Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

KMZ:Dung Gate. Referenced in Neh 2:13 , Neh 3:13 , Neh 3:14 , Neh 12:31 .

Horse Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 3:28 , Jer 31:40 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Gate of the Foundation
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Chr 23:5 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Ephraim Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Kgs 14:13 , 2 Chr 25:23 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Water Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 3:26 , Neh 8:1 , Neh 8:3 , Neh 8:16 , Neh 12:37 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Fish Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Chr 33:14 , Neh 3:3 , Neh 12:39 , Zeph 1:10 (identified with Jerusalem ).

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VIDEO • educational

Historical video footage recording the main entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem from the coastal plain and Mediterranean port of Joppa .

Lumière Brothers Historical Cinema (1897) • Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
Gate of the Guard
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 12:39 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Gate of Ephraim
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 8:16 , Neh 12:39 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Potsherd Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Jer 19:2 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Beautiful Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Acts 3:2 , Acts 3:10 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Muster Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 3:31 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Fountain Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 2:14 , Neh 3:15 , Neh 12:37 (identified with Jerusalem ).

East Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 3:29 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Gate of Yeshanah
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 3:6 , Neh 12:39 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Benjamin Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Jer 20:2 , Jer 37:13 , Jer 38:7 (identified with Jerusalem ).

People's Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Jer 17:19 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Valley Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Chr 26:9 , Neh 2:13 , Neh 2:15 , Neh 3:13 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Gate of Benjamin
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Zech 14:10 (identified with Jerusalem ).

New Gate
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Jer 26:10 , Jer 36:10 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Interactive 3D Babylonian Gate • Daniel 1–4 & 2 Kings 25

Monumental double gate on the northern wall of inner Babylon constructed by King Nebuchadnezzar II around 575 BC during the era of Daniel and the Judean exile, clad in brilliant cobalt-blue glazed bricks embossed with alternating rows of golden lions, bulls (aurochs), and dragons (mušḫuššu).

Megiddo Solomonic City Gate — Six-Chambered Iron Age Gateway
IMAGE • archaeology

Monumental six-chambered ashlar gate matching royal engineering at Hazor and Gezer ( 1 Kings 9:15 ).

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Interactive 3D Royal Portal Guardian • Esther 1 & Ezra 4:6

Colossal carved limestone winged human-headed bull (Lamassu) guarding the Gate of All Nations built by King Xerxes I (biblical Ahasuerus of the Book of Esther and Ezra 4:6 ) at Persepolis, exemplifying the imperial Achaemenid court architecture of Esther , Ezra , and Nehemiah .

Map of Nehemiah's Rebuilt Jerusalem Walls & Gates
IMAGE • maps

Archaeological reconstruction of the gates (Sheep, Fish, Valley, Dung, Fountain) and sectors rebuilt by the returnees.

Historical Biblical Cartographers • Geographicus / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
Interactive 3D Urban Scale Model • Daniel 1–5 & Jeremiah 50–51

Architectural scale model of Neo-Babylonian Babylon around 600 BC from the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem , showing the Euphrates River dividing the walled city, the Processional Way, the Ishtar Gate , Nebuchadnezzar's Southern Palace, and the Etemenanki ziggurat precinct.

Ezekiel 11
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Ezekiel • Chapter 11 (25 verses)

Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the Lord's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. Then said h... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Jerusalem , Chaldea .

2 Chronicles 26
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2 Chronicles • Chapter 26 (23 verses)

Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah , who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah . He built Eloth , and restored it to Judah , after that the king slept with his fathers. Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fift... Mentions: Judah, Azariah (or Uzziah), Amaziah , Zechariah , Ammonites , Eloth , Jerusalem , Gath , Jabneh , Ashdod .

Ezekiel 46
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Ezekiel • Chapter 46 (24 verses)

Thus saith the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without,...

Nehemiah 3
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Nehemiah • Chapter 3 (32 verses)

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel. And next unto him builded the men of Jericho . And next... Mentions: Berechiah , Zadok , Uzziel , Rephaiah , Malchijah , Jericho , Gibeon , Mizpah 3 , Jerusalem , Zanoah 1 .

Ezekiel 26
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Ezekiel • Chapter 26 (21 verses)

And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem , Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, ... Mentions: Tyre , Jerusalem , Babylon .

Ezekiel 9
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Ezekiel • Chapter 9 (11 verses)

He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter ... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Judah , Jerusalem .

Job 38
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Job • Chapter 38 (41 verses)

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

Western Wall — Spring of Robinson's Arch (Jerusalem)
IMAGE • archaeology

Enormous carved spring stone projecting from the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount that supported a colossal staircase.

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Proverbs 24
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Proverbs • Chapter 24 (34 verses)

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

Scripture Passages (24)

Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.

All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem : and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin 's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.

After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.

And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah , the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah , at Beth–shemesh, and came to Jerusalem , and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah , the son of Joash , the son of Jehoahaz , at Beth–shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem , and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.

And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron , unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the Lord; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.

Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.

And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.

Dedan , and Tema , and Buz , and all that are in the utmost corners,

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:

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