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i.e. The city, by a usual synecdoche, as Deu_12:15 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, Deu_21:19 22:15 Amo_5:12,15 Zec 8:16; and of fortification and chief strength in war, Jud_5:8 Psa_147:13 Isa_22:7 Eze_21:22. And this promise was fulfilled both literally in Israel’s conquest of Canaan, in David, Solomon, &c., and spiritually in Christ, Psa_110:1-3.