Proverbs 31:23

A Conservative Version

Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.

Cross References

Proverbs 12:4

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but she who makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Ruth 4:1

Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. And, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by, to whom he said, Such man, stay, turn aside. Sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Thou shall make judges and officers for thee in all thy gates, which LORD thy God gives thee, according to thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for a fool. He opens not his mouth in the gate.

Job 29:7

when I went forth to the gate to the city, when I prepared my seat in the street.

Ruth 4:11

And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. LORD make the woman that has come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel, and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, an

Deuteronomy 21:19

then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.

Ruth 4:2

And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.