Gate of Benjamin
Landmark in the Bible
Other names: Benjamin's Gate
Located in: Jerusalem
Location: 31.78° N, 35.23° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)
Mentioned in 4 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.
Where Gate of Benjamin is mentioned
Jeremiah 20:1–2
1 When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,
2 he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
Read in contextJeremiah 37:13
But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”
Read in contextJeremiah 38:7–8
7 Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
8 Ebed-melech went out from the king’s palace and said to the king,
Read in contextZechariah 14:10
All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be turned into a plain, but Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain in her place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.
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