Ruth 4:1

New King James Version

Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz had spoken came by. So Boaz said, “Come aside, friend, sit down here.” So he came aside and sat down.

Cross References

Genesis 19:1

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

Genesis 23:10

Now Ephron dwelt among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the presence of the sons of Heth, all who entered at the gate of his city, saying,

Genesis 34:20

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

2 Samuel 15:2

Now Absalom would rise early and stand beside the way to the gate. So it was, whenever anyone who had a lawsuit came to the king for a decision, that Absalom would call to him and say, “What city are you from?” And he would say, “Your servant is from such and such a tribe of Israel.”

2 Chronicles 18:9

The king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, clothed in their robes, sat each on his throne; and they sat at a threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

Job 29:7

“When I went out to the gate by the city, When I took my seat in the open square,

Job 31:21

If I have raised 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 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. Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.

Jeremiah 32:10

And I signed the deed and sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the money on the scales.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate. It may be that the Lord God of hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Zechariah 2:6

“Up, up! Flee from the land of the north,” says the Lord; “for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven,” says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 16:18

“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Deuteronomy 17:5

then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and shall stone to death that man or woman with stones.

Deuteronomy 21:19

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

Deuteronomy 25:7

But 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 to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’

Joshua 20:4

And when he flees to one of those cities, and stands at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declares his case in the hearing of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city as one of them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

Ruth 3:12

Now it is true that I am a close relative; however, there is a relative closer than I.

Ruth 3:18

Then she said, “Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will turn out; for the man will not rest until he has concluded the matter this day.”