Job 29:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the town square,

Cross References

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another; make true and sound decisions within your city gates.

Ruth 4:11

All the people who were at the city gate, including the elders, said, ‘We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your house like Rachel and Leah,  who together built the house of Israel. May you be powerful in Ephrathah and your name well known in Bethlehem.

Deuteronomy 16:18

‘Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgement.

Job 31:21

if I ever cast my vote  against a fatherless child when I saw that I had support in the city gate,

Deuteronomy 21:19

his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate  of his home town.

Job 29:8

the young men saw me and withdrew, while older men stood to their feet.

Proverbs 8:3

Beside the gates  leading into the city, at the main entrance, she cries out:

Jeremiah 38:7

But Ebed-melech, a Cushite court official in the king’s palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate,

Genesis 19:1

The two angels entered Sodom  in the evening as Lot was sitting in Sodom’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them. He bowed with his face to the ground

Genesis 34:20

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city  and spoke to the men of their city.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known at the city gates, where he sits among the elders of the land.