Ruth 4:1

A Conservative Version

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.

Cross References

Ruth 3:12

And now it is TRUE that I am a near kinsman. However there is a kinsman nearer than I.

Deuteronomy 25:7

And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty

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.

Amos 5:15

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate. It may be that LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

Job 29:7

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

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.

Zechariah 2:6

Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, says LORD. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says LORD.

Isaiah 55:1

Ho, everyone who thirsts, come ye to the waters. And he who has no money, come ye, buy, and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Deuteronomy 17:5

then thou shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to thy gates, even the man or the woman, and thou shall stone them to death with stones.

Genesis 23:10

Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the sons of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Genesis 34:20

And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and conversed with the men of their city, saying,

Joshua 20:4

And he shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, th

Ruth 3:18

Then she said, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall, for the man will not rest until he has finished the thing this day.

2 Samuel 15:2

And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. And it was so, that, when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, Of what city are thou? And he said, Thy

2 Chronicles 18:9

Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah each sat on his throne, arrayed in their robes. And they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before th

Psalm 69:12

Those who sit in the gate talk of me, and [I am] the song of the drunkards.

Proverbs 31:23

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

Jeremiah 32:10

And I signed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

Genesis 19:1

And the two [heavenly] agents came to Sodom at evening, and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. And he bowed himself with his face to the earth,