Job 29:7

Tree of Life Version

When I went out to the city gate, and secured my seat in the public square,

Cross References

Genesis 19:1

Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, while Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Genesis 34:20

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

Job 29:8

young men would see me and hide, old men would rise and stand;

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the orphan, when I saw my support in the gate,

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is respected at the city gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

Proverbs 8:3

Beside the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries aloud:

Jeremiah 38:7

Now Ebed-melech—an Ethiopian official in the king’s palace—heard they had put Jeremiah in the pit. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that you are to do: speak the truth one to another; administer the judgment of truth and shalom in your gates;

Deuteronomy 16:18

“Judges and officers you are to appoint within all your gates that Adonai your God is giving you, according to your tribes; and they are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

Deuteronomy 21:19

Then his father and mother are to grab hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city—to the gate of his place.

Ruth 4:11

All the people at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May Adonai make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, who both built up the house of Israel. May you prosper in Ephrath and be renowned in Bethlehem.