Verse 9

`Then hath his brother's wife drawn nigh unto him, before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother;

Referenced Verses

  • Num 12:14 : 14 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `And her father had but spat in her face -- is she not ashamed seven days? she is shut out seven days at the outside of the camp, and afterwards she is gathered.'
  • Ruth 4:7-8 : 7 And this `is' formerly in Israel for redemption and for changing, to establish anything: a man hath drawn off his sandal, and given `it' to his neighbour, and this `is' the testimony in Israel. 8 And the redeemer saith to Boaz, `Buy `it' for thyself,' and draweth off his sandal.
  • Isa 50:6 : 6 My back I have given to those smiting, And my cheeks to those plucking out, My face I hid not from shame and spitting.
  • Job 30:10 : 10 They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.
  • Isa 20:2 : 2 at that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, `Go, and thou hast loosed the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thy sandal thou dost draw from off thy foot,' and he doth so, going naked and barefoot.
  • Gen 38:8-9 : 8 And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;' 9 and Onan knoweth that the seed is not `reckoned' his; and it hath come to pass, if he hath gone in unto his brother's wife, that he hath destroyed `it' to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother; 10 and that which he hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him also to death.
  • Matt 26:67 : 67 Then did they spit in his face and buffet him, and others did slap,
  • Matt 27:30 : 30 And having spit on him, they took the reed, and were smiting on his head;
  • Mark 1:7 : 7 and he proclaimed, saying, `He doth come -- who is mightier than I -- after me, of whom I am not worthy -- having stooped down -- to loose the latchet of his sandals;
  • Mark 10:34 : 34 and they shall mock him, and scourge him, and spit on him, and kill him, and the third day he shall rise again.'
  • John 1:27 : 27 of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'
  • Ruth 4:10-11 : 10 and also Ruth the Moabitess, wife of Mahlon, I have bought to myself for a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance; and the name of the dead is not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place; witnesses ye `are' to-day.' 11 And all the people who `are' in the gate say -- also the elders -- `Witnesses! Jehovah make the woman who is coming in unto thy house as Rachel and as Leah, both of whom built the house of Israel; and do thou virtuously in Ephrathah, and proclaim the Name in Beth-Lehem;
  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 `Therefore -- the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel -- I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.