Ruth 4:1
Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him, calling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And Booz taking ten men of the ancients of the city, said to them: Sit ye down here.
Cross References
Genesis 19:1And the two angels came to Sodom ii in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground,
Deuteronomy 16:18Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment,
Deuteronomy 21:19They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of his city, and to the gate of judgment,
Ruth 3:12Neither do I deny myself to be near of kin, but there is another nearer than I.
Job 31:21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:
Amos 5:10They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.
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 →