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Gate of Ephraim

Gate of Ephraim (Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E): Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 8:16 , Neh 12:39 (identified with Jerusalem ). It is closely linked with Ephraim Gate (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).

Connected Genealogical Figures & Lineage

Ephraim (Generation 24 • Child of Joseph ): Ephraim is a biblical figure in Generation 24, child of Joseph , parent of Shuthelah , Ezer , Elead , Beriah . ( Genesis 41:52 ) (mentioned in Genesis 41 , Genesis 46 , Genesis 48 )

Biblical Geography & Sacred Architecture

Key geographical locations connected to this topic include Gate of Ephraim (Ancient biblical location referenced in Neh 8:16 , Neh 12:39 (identified with Jerusalem ).) Ephraim Gate (Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Kgs 14:13 , 2 Chr 25:23 (identified with Jerusalem ).) Gate of the Foundation (Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Chr 23:5 (identified with Jerusalem).) 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 Nehemiah 12:39 : "And from above the gate of Ephraim , and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood stil..."; 2 Kings 14:13 : "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 ..."; 2 Chronicles 25:23 : "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 ...". Related canonical books and chapters: Nehemiah 8 ( Nehemiah • Chapter 8 (18 verses)), Joshua 20 ( Joshua • Chapter 20 (9 verses)), Jeremiah 7 ( Jeremiah • Chapter 7 (34 verses)).

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

Topics, People & Places (36)

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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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 .

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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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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
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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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).

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 ).

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 ).

Ephraim
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Generation 24 • Child of Joseph

Ephraim is a biblical figure in Generation 24, child of Joseph , parent of Shuthelah , Ezer , Elead , Beriah . ( Genesis 41:52 )

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
Ephraim
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Biblical Place • Ophrah 1 • 31.954°N, 35.299°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in John 11:54 (identified with Ophrah 1 ).

Nehemiah 8
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Nehemiah • Chapter 8 (18 verses)

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses , which the Lord had commanded to Israel . And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregatio... Mentions: Ezra, Moses , Jacob/Israel , Hilkiah , Pedaiah , Shema , Jeshua , Jerusalem , Ephraim .

Joshua 20
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Joshua • Chapter 20 (9 verses)

The Lord also spake unto Joshua , saying, Speak to the children of Israel , saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses : That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge ... Mentions: Joshua , Jacob/Israel , Moses , Naphtali , Ephraim , Kedesh 1 , Galilee , Shechem , Hebron .

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 .

Jeremiah 7
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Jeremiah • Chapter 7 (34 verses)

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all ye of Judah , that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel , Amend... Mentions: Judah , Jacob/Israel , Baal , Ephraim , Shiloh , Jerusalem , Egypt .

Isaiah 28
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Isaiah • Chapter 28 (29 verses)

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim , whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a f... Mentions: Ephraim , Jerusalem , Zion , Gibeon .

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.

Mount Ephraim
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Biblical Place • Mount Ebal • 32.233°N, 35.273°E

?. Referenced in Jer 4:15 .

2 Chronicles 31
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2 Chronicles • Chapter 31 (21 verses)

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah , and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin , in Ephraim also and Manasseh , until they had utterly... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Judah, Benjamin , Ephraim , Manasseh , Jerusalem , Eden , Jeshua .

Ezekiel 48
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Ezekiel • Chapter 48 (35 verses)

Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon , as one goeth to Hamath , Hazar–enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath ; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan . And by the border of Dan , from the... Mentions: Dan, Asher , Naphtali , Manasseh , Ephraim , Hethlon , Hamath, Damascus .

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

Scripture Passages (24)

And from above the gate of Ephraim , and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.

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.

So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim .

Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead , and fought with Ephraim : and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim , because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah , and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

Ephraim , he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

I know Ephraim , and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim , thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

Ephraim , as I saw Tyre , is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh : and he set Ephraim before Manasseh .

Manasseh , Ephraim ; and Ephraim , Manasseh : and they together shall be against Judah . For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud .

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

Of the tribe of Ephraim , Oshea the son of Nun .

On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel : three gates northward; one gate of Reuben , one gate of Judah , one gate of Levi .

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.

So the children of Joseph , Manasseh and Ephraim , took their inheritance.

The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim .

At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad , one gate of Asher , one gate of Naphtali .

And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph , one gate of Benjamin , one gate of Dan .

And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon , one gate of Issachar , one gate of Zebulun .

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