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The number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their positions of trust.
- 1 Chronicles 9:22
He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
- 2 Chronicles 3:7
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
- Isaiah 6:4
as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered.
- Ezekiel 41:16
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
- Amos 9:1
When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.
- Mark McKinnon
Sometimes...I wander about in this house that Nathan and I renewed, that is now aged and worn by our life in it. How many steps, wearing the thresholds? I look at it all again. Sometimes it fills to the brim with sorrow, which signifies the joy that has been here, and the love. It is entirely a gift.
- Wendell Berry
To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.
- Frank Herbert
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson