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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

URute 4:2

2 Waphambuka, wahlala. Wathabatha ishumi lamadoda kumadoda amakhulu omzi, wathi, Hlalani apha; ahlala ke.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Contracts;   Court;   Government;   Heir;   Jury;   Marriage;   Witness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Elders;   Leaders;   Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Courts of Justice;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Names;   Widow;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Boaz;   City;   Elder;   Ruler;   Widow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elder;   Leadership;   Redeem, Redemption;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Boaz;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cities and Urban Life;   Court Systems;   Economic Life;   Judge (Office);   Levirate Law, Levirate Marriage;   Ruth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Boaz;   City;   Elder;   Marriage;   Sabbatical Year;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elders;   Gate;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Kinsman;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elder;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gate;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Elder;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 17;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the elders: Exodus 18:21, Exodus 18:22, Exodus 21:8, Deuteronomy 29:10, Deuteronomy 31:28, 1 Kings 21:8, Proverbs 31:23, Lamentations 5:14, Acts 6:12

Reciprocal: Joshua 20:4 - at the entering Job 29:7 - General Isaiah 8:2 - I took

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he took ten men of the elders of the city,.... Who were such, not merely in age but in office, who were the heads of thousands, fifties, and tens; ten of whom were a quorum to do business in judiciary affairs, to determine such matters as Boaz had propose, as to whom the right of redemption of a brother and kinsman's widow, and her estate, belonged, and who were the proper witnesses of the refusal of the one to do it, and of the other's doing it and from hence the Jews e gather, that the blessing of the bride and bridegroom at their marriage is not to be done by less than ten persons:

and said, sit down here, and they sat down; and so made a full court.

e Misnah Megillah, c. 4. sect. 3. T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 7. 1. Midrash Ruth, fol. 35. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Every city was governed by elders (see Deuteronomy 19:12; Judges 8:14). For the number “ten,” compare Exodus 18:25. Probably the presence of, at least, ten elders was necessary to make a lawful public assembly, as among modern Jews ten (a minyon) are necessary to constitute a synagogue.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 4:2. He took ten men — Probably it required this number to constitute a court. How simple and how rational was this proceeding!

1. The man who had a suit went to the city gates.

2. Here he stopped till the person with whom he had the suit came to the gate on his way to his work.

3. He called him by name, and he stopped and sat down.

4. Then ten elders were called, and they came and sat down.

5. When all this was done, the appellant preferred his suit.

6. Then the appellee returned his answer.

7. When the elders heard the case, and the response of the appellee, they pronounced judgment, which judgment was always according to the custom of the place.

8. When this was done, the people who happened to be present witnessed the issue.

And thus the business was settled without lawyers or legal casuistry. A question of this kind, in one of our courts of justice, in these enlightened times, would require many days' previous preparation of the attorney, and several hours' arguing between counsellor Botherum and counsellor Borum, till even an enlightened and conscientious judge would find it extremely difficult to decide whether Naomi might sell her own land, and whether Boaz or Peloni might buy it! O, glorious uncertainty of modern law!


 
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