31And 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.
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And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: …
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. …
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-35)We have here a further account of the city that should be built for the metropolis of this glorious land, and to be the receptacle of those who would come from all parts to worship in the sanctuary adjoining. It is nowhere called Jerusalem, nor is the land which we have had such a particular account of the dividing of any where called the land of Canaan; for the old names are forgotten, to intimat…
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