Proverbs 31:23

The Scriptures 1998

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

Cross References

Proverbs 12:4

A capable wife is the crown of her husband, But one causing shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Ruth 4:1

And Boʽ

Deuteronomy 16:18

“Appoint judges and officers within all your gates, which יהוה  your Elohim is giving you, according to your tribes. And they shall judge the people with righteous right-ruling.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is high for a fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate.

Job 29:7

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

Ruth 4:11

And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “Witnesses! יהוה  make the woman who is coming to your house as Raḥ

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,

Ruth 4:2

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