Ruth 4:1
And Boaz hath gone up to the gate, and sitteth there, and lo, the redeemer is passing by of whom Boaz had spoken, and he saith, 'Turn aside, sit down here, such a one, such a one;' and he turneth aside and sitteth down.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2And he taketh ten men of the elders of the city, and saith, 'Sit down here;' and they sit down.
Cross References
Genesis 19:1And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself — face to the earth,
Deuteronomy 16:18'Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people — a righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 21:19then laid hold on him have his father and his mother, and they have brought him out unto the elders of his city, and unto 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 at the fatherless my hand, When I see in [him] the gate of my court,
Amos 5:10They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.
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 →