Boaz went to the meeting place at the town gate and sat down there. Then Elimelech's nearest relative, the man whom Boaz had mentioned, came by, and Boaz called to him, "Come over here, my friend, and sit down." So he went over and sat down.

Then Boaz got ten of the leaders of the town and asked them to sit down there too. When they were seated,

Their children can never find safety; no one stands up to defend them in court.

Whenever the city elders met and I took my place among them,

Her husband is well known, one of the leading citizens.

However, Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who worked in the royal palace, heard that they had put me in the well. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate.

Do not destroy me with the sinners; spare me from the fate of murderers---

There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us.