Ruth 4:1

Modern English Version

So Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom he had spoken, passed by. So Boaz said, “Come over, friend, and sit here.” So he went over and sat down.

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 23:10

Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the presence of all the Hittites, all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

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,

2 Samuel 15:2

Absalom would go early and stand beside the way into the gate. When any man who had a dispute concerning which he had come to the king for a judgment approached, Absalom would call to him and say, “Which city are you from?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”

2 Chronicles 18:9

And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their own thrones, clothed in their royal garments, at the threshing floor at the entrance at the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

Job 29:7

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

Job 31:21

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

Psalm 69:12

Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

Proverbs 31:23

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

Isaiah 55:1

Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Jeremiah 32:10

I signed and sealed the deed, and summoned witnesses, and weighed the money from him in the balances.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice at the gate. It may then be that the Lord God of Hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Zechariah 2:6

Up, up, flee from the northern land, says the Lord, for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.

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 17:5

then you must bring forth that man or that woman who has committed that wicked thing to your gates, that very man or woman, and stone them with stones until they die.

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.

Deuteronomy 25:7

If the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up his brother’s name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.”

Joshua 20:4

“ ‘The refugee can flee to one of these cities then stand at the entrance of the city gate and tell his case to the city elders. They will take him into the city and give him a place to stay, and he will live with them.

Ruth 3:12

Now it is true that I am a redeeming kinsman. Yet there is another redeemer closer than I am.

Ruth 3:18

Then Naomi said, “Wait here, my daughter, until you learn what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.”