The term “Elders at the gate” has some important implications. The city gate is the threshold for the city, when you enter through it you are expected to live by the rules established for the city the same as you would when entering someone’s home. Lamentations 5:14, “The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.” Without the elders at the gate there becomes no one to form a covenant of entry with which means that when you enter, you are free to do whatever you want because the rules or the laws have been abandoned. Without guidelines and rules of conduct in a home the family unit breaks down. In a community, neighbors become enemies and in a nation, society falls apart.