Ruth 4:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the 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.

To the gate

Amos 5:10

The kinsman

Ruth 3:12

Ho, such

Isaiah 55:1

Zechariah 2:6

General references

Job 29:7

Bible References

To the gate

“Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

you must bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing and stone them to death.

his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown.

But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she must go to the elders at the city gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’

When I went out to the city gate
and took my seat in the town square,

if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,

They hate the one who convicts the guilty
at the city gate
and despise the one who speaks with integrity.

The kinsman

Yes, it is true that I am a family redeemer, but there is a redeemer closer than I am.

Ho, such

“Come, everyone who is thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you without money,
come, buy, and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost!

“Get up! Leave the land of the north”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

General references

When I went out to the city gate
and took my seat in the town square,