Proverbs 31:23

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.

Cross References

Job 29:7

When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,

Proverbs 12:4

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with righteous judgement.

Deuteronomy 21:19

then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

Ruth 4:1

Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

Ruth 4:11

And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:

Ruth 4:2

And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.