Ruth 4:11

Modern King James Version

And all the people in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. May Jehovah make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, for these two built the house of Israel. And may you be blessed in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

Cross References

Genesis 23:10

And Ephron lived among the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, be the mother of thousands of millions, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them.

Genesis 29:16

And Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Genesis 29:25

And it happened in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you tricked me?

Genesis 29:32

And Leah conceived and bore a son. And she called his name Reuben, for she said, Surely Jehovah has looked upon my afflictions. Now therefore my husband will love me.

Genesis 35:23

The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

Genesis 35:24

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

1 Kings 21:8

And she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles in his city, dwelling with Naboth.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

Psalm 132:6

Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah; we found it in the fields of the wood.

Proverbs 14:1

A wise woman builds her house, but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.

Proverbs 31:23

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

Jeremiah 32:10

And I wrote it in the document, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed the silver in the scales.

Micah 5:2

And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, you being least among the thousands of Judah, out of you He shall come forth to Me, to become Ruler in Israel, He whose goings forth have been from of old, from the days of eternity.

Matthew 2:6

"And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the governors of Judah. For out of you shall come a Governor who shall rule My people Israel."

Deuteronomy 25:7

And 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 a name in Israel to his brother. He will not perform my levirate.

Deuteronomy 25:9

then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of his elders, and take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man who will not build up his brother's house.

Ruth 1:2

And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-judah. And they came to the fields of Moab and stayed there.