At the gates — Out of a diffidence in those, to whom the keeping of the gates was committed.
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Nehemiah 13:19
19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.