Proverbs 31:23
Her husband is known at the city gate, where he sits among the elders of the land.
BSB
ASV
Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.
KJV
Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
Her husband is known in the gates,.... Of the city, where courts of justice were kept, and causes heard and tried by the judges, the elders of the land, later mentioned; among whom the husband of the virtuous woman was, where he was known, taken notice of, and celebrated; not so much for the beautiful garments she made him, as Jarchi; but rather for his wisdom, as Gersom, and for being the husband of such a woman; who, taking such care of his domestic affairs, he was more at leisure to attend public business, and transact it with reputation.
Nay, by his appearing clean and neat in his dress, every thing about him decent and handsome, yet not gaudy, one may know he has a good wife at home, that takes care of his clothes. She is one that takes pains in the duty of her place and takes pleasure in it. This part of her character is much enlarged upon here.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 12:4A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
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A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
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Ruth 4:1Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went…
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But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Yes, it is true that I am a kinsman-redeemer, but there is a redeemer nearer than I.
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Job 29:7When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
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You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.