Ruth 4:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Boaz went to the gate of the town  and sat down there. Soon the family redeemer Boaz had spoken about came by. Boaz said, ‘Come over here  and sit down.’ So he went over and sat down.

Cross References

Ruth 3:12

Yes, it is true that I am a family redeemer, but there is a redeemer closer than I am.

Deuteronomy 25:7

But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate  and say, “My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”

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.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good; establish justice at the city gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Job 31:21

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

Job 29:7

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

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.

Zechariah 2:6

‘Listen! Listen! Flee from the land of the north’   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.

Isaiah 55:1

‘Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the water; and you without silver, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without silver and without cost!

Deuteronomy 17:5

you are to bring out to your city gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing and stone them to death.

Genesis 23:10

Ephron was sitting among the Hethites. So in the hearing  of all the Hethites who came to the gate of his city,  Ephron the Hethite answered Abraham:

Genesis 34:20

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

Joshua 20:4

When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before the elders of that city, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.

Ruth 3:18

Naomi said, ‘My daughter, wait until you find out how things go, for he won’t rest unless he resolves this today.’

2 Samuel 15:2

He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate.  Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for settlement, Absalom called out to him and asked, ‘What city are you from? ’ If he replied, ‘Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,’

2 Chronicles 18:9

Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah, clothed in royal attire, were each sitting on his own throne. They were sitting on the threshing-floor at the entrance to Samaria’s gate,  and all the prophets were prophesying in front of them.

Proverbs 31:23

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

Jeremiah 32:10

I recorded it on a scroll,  sealed it, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

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