Ruth 4:1
Now, Boaz, went up to the gate, and sat him down there, and lo! the kinsman, passing by, of whom Boaz had spoken, so he said—Turn aside! and sit down here, such a one! And he turned aside, and sat down.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2Then fetched he ten men of the elders of the city, and said—Sit ye down here. And they sat down.
Cross References
Genesis 19:1So the two messengers went in towards Sodom at eventide, Lot, being seated in the gate of Sodom,—so Lot beheld and rose up to meet them, and bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Deuteronomy 16:18Judges and officers, shalt thou appoint thee in all thy gates, which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee, by thy tribes,—and they shall judge the people, with righteous judgment,
Deuteronomy 21:19then shall his father and his mother, lay hold of him,—and bring him forth unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
Ruth 3:12And, now, although it is true that, a kinsman, am I, yet is there a kinsman nearer than I.
Job 31:21If I shook—against the fatherless—my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,
Amos 5:10They hate the man who, in the gate, rebuketh,—and, him who speaketh truthfully, they abhor.
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 →