From the gate. The place where the elders, technically so called, assembled for legal proceedings, and where the citizens in general met together for social concourse (comp. Genesis 19:1; Ruth 4:11; Psalms 69:12; Amos 5:12, Amos 5:15; Daniel 2:49).
From their music (comp. Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 16:9).