THEOSISProverbs 31:23Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land.
נוֹדָ֣ע בַּשְּׁעָרִ֣ים בַּעְלָ֑הּ בְּ֝שִׁבְתּ֗וֹ עִם־זִקְנֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 12:4A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is as rottenness in his bones.
- Ruth 4:1Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him, calling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down.
- Deut 16:18Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment,
- Deut 21:19They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city, and to the gate of judgment,
- Ruth 4:11Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients, answered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in Bethlehem:
- Job 29:7When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
- Prov 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he shall not open his mouth.