Ruth 4:1

Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Soon, the near kinsman of whom Boaz had spoken came by. Boaz said to him, “My friend, come over and sit down here.” The man came over and sat down.

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In The King James Version

Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

In Context

2Then Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:1The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, while Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, arose to meet them, and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Deuteronomy 16:18You must make judges and officers within all your city gates that Yahweh your God is giving you; they will be taken from each of your tribes, and they must judge the people with righteous judgment.

Deuteronomy 21:19then his father and his mother must lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his city.

Ruth 3:12It is true that I am a kinsman, but there is a kinsman nearer than I.

Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against fatherless people 1 because I saw my support in the city gate, 1 then bring charges against me! 1

Amos 5:10They hate anyone who corrects them in the city gate, 1 and they abhor anyone who speaks the truth. 1

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 →

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