Ruth 4:1

Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He 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

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

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Cross References

Genesis 19:1The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

Deuteronomy 16:18You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Deuteronomy 21:19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

Ruth 3:12Now 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 blamelessly.

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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