Ruth 4:1
And Boaz has gone up to the gate, and sits there, and behold, the redeemer is passing by of whom Boaz had spoken, and he says, “Turn aside, sit down here, such a one, such a one”; and he turns aside and sits down.
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In Context
2And he takes ten men from [the] elderly of the city, and says, “Sit down here”; and they sit down.
Cross References
Genesis 19:1And two of the messengers come toward Sodom at evening, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot sees, and rises to meet them, and bows himself—face to the earth,
Deuteronomy 16:18You set for yourself judges and authorities within all your gates which your God YHWH is giving to you, for your tribes; and they have judged the people [with] a righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 21:19then his father and his mother have laid hold on him, and they have brought him out to [the] elderly of his city, and to the gate of his place,
Ruth 3:12And now, surely, true, that I [am] a redeemer, but also there is a redeemer nearer than I.
Job 31:21If I have waved my hand at the fatherless, || When I see [him] in the gate of my court,
Amos 5:10They have hated a reprover in the gate, || And they detest a plain speaker.
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 →