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RUTH CHAPTER 4
Boaz goeth up to the gate, calleth his kinsman; inquires whether he would redeem and marry Ruth, Rth_4:1-5. He refuseth, Rth_4:6-8. Boaz, the people witnessing and congratulating, buyeth the inheritance, and marrieth Ruth, Rth_4:9-12. She beareth Obed the grandfather of David, Rth_4:13-17. The genealogy from Pharez unto David, Rth_4:18-22.
The gate; the place where controversies were decided, and the people assembled, and where they used to go out and come in to the town; where he was most likely to find his kinsman. Ho, such a one! doubtless Boaz both knew his name, and called him by it; but it is omitted by the holy writer, partly because it was unnecessary to know it; and principally in way of contempt, as is usual, and as a just punishment upon him, that he who would not preserve his brother’s name might lose his own, and be buried in the grave of perpetual oblivion.
Sit down here, I have some business of importance with you.