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

“You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil deed to your gates, that is, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them to death.

then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

But if the man does not desire 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 establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

“When I went out to the gate of the city,
When I took my seat in the square,

If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw I had support in the gate,

They hate him who reproves in the gate,
And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.

The kinsman

Now it is true I am a close relative; however, there is a relative closer than I.

Ho, such

“Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have no money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk

Without money and without cost.

“Ho there! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have dispersed you as the four winds of the heavens,” declares the Lord.

General references

“When I went out to the gate of the city,
When I took my seat in the square,