Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened - (Job 12:14 ; Isaiah 22:22, "The key of the house of David will I lay upon His shoulder (the antitypical Eliakim); so He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open;" Revelation 3:7). "Shut" to the people (Exodus 19:21-22), but open to "the prince" (Ezekiel 44:3 ), he holding the place of God in political concerns as the priests do in spiritual. As a mark of respect to an Eastern monarch, the gate by which he enters is thenceforth shut to all other persons (cf. Exodus 19:24 ).