Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. And, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by, to whom he said, Such man, stay, turn aside. Sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.
Cross References
Genesis 19:1And the two [heavenly] agents came to Sodom at evening, and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. And he bowed himself with his face to the earth,
Deuteronomy 16:18Thou shall make judges and officers for thee in all thy gates, which LORD thy God gives thee, according to thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 21:19then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.
Ruth 3:12And now it is TRUE that I am a near kinsman. However there is a kinsman nearer than I.
Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
Amos 5:10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.
Matthew Henry on Ruth 4:1
In this chapter we have the wedding between Boaz and Ruth, in the circumstances of which there was something uncommon, which is kept upon record for the illustration, not only of the law concerning the marrying of a brother's widow ( Deut. xxv. 5 , &c.), for cases help to expound laws, but of the gospel too, for from this marriage descended David, and the Son of David, whose espousals to the Gentile church were hereby typified. We are here told, I. How Boaz got clear of his rival, and fairly shook him off, ver.… Read the whole commentary →