Ruth 4:1
Then went Boaz vp to the gate, and sate there, and beholde, the kinsman, of whome Boaz had spoken, came by: and he sayd, Ho, snch one, come, sit downe here. And he turned, and sate downe.
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In Context
2Then he tooke ten men of the Elders of the citie, and sayd, Sit ye downe here. And they sate downe.
Cross References
Genesis 19:1And in the euening there came two Angels to Sodom: and Lot sate at the gate of Sodom, and Lot sawe them, and rose vp to meete them, and he bowed himselfe with his face to the ground.
Deuteronomy 16:18Iudges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy cities, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall iudge the people with righteous iudgement.
Deuteronomy 21:19Then shall his father and his mother take him, and bring him out vnto the Elders of his citie, and vnto the gate of the place where he dwelleth,
Ruth 3:12And now, it is true that I am thy kinsman, howbeit there is a kinsman neerer then I.
Job 31:21If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,
Amos 5:10They haue hated him, that rebuked in the gate: and they abhorred him that speaketh vprightly.
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 →