Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz had spoken came by. So Boaz said, "Come aside, friend, sit down here." So he came aside and sat down.

And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here." So they sat down.

His sons are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate, And [there is] no deliverer.

"When I went out to the gate by the city, [When] I took my seat in the open square,

Her husband is known in the gates, When he sits among the elders of the land.

Now Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon. When the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,

Do not gather my soul with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

that by two immutable things, in which it [is] impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before [us.]