Job 29:7

Modern English Version

“When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square,

Cross References

Genesis 19:1

Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them he rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground.

Genesis 34:20

So Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and they spoke with the men of their city, saying,

Job 29:8

the young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged arose and stood up.

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate;

Proverbs 31:23

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

Proverbs 8:3

Beside the gates in front of the city, at the entrance of the doors she cries out:

Jeremiah 38:7

Now Ebed-melek the Cushite, one of the eunuchs who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern. Now the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin.

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things you will do: Speak truth each to his neighbor, and make judgments in your gates that are for truth, and justice, and peace.

Deuteronomy 16:18

You must appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the Lord your God gives you, throughout your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Deuteronomy 21:19

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

Ruth 4:11

Then all the people who were at the gate, along with the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you do well in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem!