Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
The lord
Ephratah
General references
Bible References
The lord
Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebecca, and said to her, Thou art our sister; mayest thou become thousands of tens of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gate of their enemies!
Psalm 127:3
Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, and the fruit of the womb a reward.
Psalm 128:3
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.
Build
Deuteronomy 25:9
then shall his brother's wife come near to him before the eyes of the elders, and draw his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that will not build up his brother's house.
Proverbs 14:1
The wisdom of women buildeth their house; but folly plucketh it down with her hands.
Ephratah
Ruth 1:2
And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-Judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
Genesis 35:16
And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.
Psalm 132:6
Behold, we heard of it at Ephratah, we found it in the fields of the wood.
Micah 5:2
(And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall he come forth unto me who is to be Ruler in Israel: whose goings forth are from of old, from the days of eternity.)
Matthew 2:6
And thou Bethlehem, land of Juda, art in no wise the least among the governors of Juda; for out of thee shall go forth a leader who shall shepherd my people Israel.
General references
Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
Matthew 2:5
And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judaea; for thus it is written through the prophet: