Ruth 4:1

Tree of Life Version

Meanwhile Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And all of a sudden, the goel about whom Boaz had spoken passed by. “Come over,” he called, “and sit down here, my friend.” So he came over and sat down.

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 23:10

Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, all those who enter the gate of his city, saying,

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:

2 Samuel 15:2

Absalom used to rise up early and stand beside the road to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a suit to come to the king for justice, then Absalom would call to him and say, “What town are you from?” Should he answer, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”

2 Chronicles 18:9

Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah, wearing their robes, were sitting on their thrones on the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria with all the prophets prophesying before them.

Job 29:7

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

Job 31:21

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

Psalm 69:12

When I put on sackcloth, I became a joke to them.

Proverbs 31:23

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

Isaiah 55:1

“Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the water, and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

Jeremiah 32:10

I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed the money on the scales.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, love good, maintain justice at the gate. Maybe Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will extend grace to Joseph’s remnant.

Zechariah 2:6

I asked, ‘Where are you going?’ He answered me, ‘To measure Jerusalem to see how wide and how long it is.’

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 17:5

Then you are to bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and stone that man or woman with stones to death.

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.

Deuteronomy 25:7

But if the man does not want to take his brother’s widow, his brother’s widow is to go to the elders at the gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel—he is unwilling to perform a brother-in-law’s duty for me.’

Joshua 20:4

When one flees to one of those cities, he must stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and state his case in the hearing of the elders of that city. Then they are to take him into their city and give him a place to live among them.

Ruth 3:12

Although it is true that I am a goel, there is one who is a closer goel than me.

Ruth 3:18

“Wait, my daughter,” Naomi said, “until you find out how the matter turns out, for he will not rest until he has settled the matter today.”