Rut 4:1-2, Job 5:4, 29:7, Pro 31:23, Jer 38:7 | ESV | STEP | Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there . And behold , the redeemer , of whom Boaz had spoken , came by . So Boaz said , Turn aside , friend ; sit down here . And he turned aside and sat down .

Ruth 4:1-2

Boaz Redeems Ruth

1 Now Boaz had gone up to ^athe gate and sat down there. And behold, ^bthe redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, “Turn aside, friend; sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down. 2 And he took ten men ^cof the elders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.

Job 5:4

4 His children are ^dfar from safety;
they are crushed in ^ethe gate,
and there is no one to deliver them.

Job 29:7

7 When I went out to ^fthe gate of the city,
when I prepared my seat in the square,

Proverbs 31:23

23 Her husband is known in ^gthe gates
when he sits among the elders of the land.

Jeremiah 38:7

Jeremiah Rescued from the Cistern

7 When ^hEbed-melech ⁱthe Ethiopian, ^ja eunuch who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern—the king was sitting ^kin the Benjamin Gate—