Verse 7

When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street,

Referenced Verses

• Deut 16:18 : 18 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
• Ruth 4:1-2 : 1 Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down. 2 He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit you down here. They sat down.
• Zech 8:16 : 16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
• Ruth 4:11 : 11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
• Job 31:21 : 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:
• Deut 21:19 : 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;