Ruth 4:1

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.

Cross References

Genesis 19:1

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

Genesis 23:10

Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Genesis 34:20

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

2 Samuel 15:2

Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgement, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

2 Chronicles 18:9

Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah each sat on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

Job 29:7

when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

Psalm 69:12

Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits amongst the elders of the land.

Isaiah 55:1

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Jeremiah 32:10

I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Zechariah 2:6

Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says the LORD; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says the LORD.

Deuteronomy 16:18

You shall make 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 righteous judgement.

Deuteronomy 17:5

then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death 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 and to the gate of his place.

Deuteronomy 25:7

If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

Joshua 20:4

He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live amongst them.

Ruth 3:12

Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I.

Ruth 3:18

Then she said, “Wait, my daughter, until you know what will happen; for the man will not rest until he has settled this today.”