i.e. The city, by a usual synecdoche, as Deuteronomy 12:15, Deuteronomy 18:6, all the cities, and consequently the country adjacent; gate for gates. The sense is, they shall subdue their enemies. For the gates of cities were the places both of jurisdiction or judicature, Deuteronomy 21:19, Deuteronomy 22:15 Amos 5:12,15 Zec 8:16; and of fortification and chief strength in war, Judges 5:8 Psalms 147:13 Isaiah 22:7 Ezekiel 21:22. And this promise was fulfilled both literally in Israel's conquest of Canaan, in David, Solomon, &c., and spiritually in Christ, Psalms 110:1-3.
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Genesis 22:17
17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore;d and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;