Ruth 4:1

RUTH CHAPTER 4 Boaz goeth up to the gate, calleth his kinsman; inquires whether he would redeem and marry Ruth, Ruth 4:1. He refuseth, Ruth 4:6. Boaz, the people witnessing and congratulating, buyeth the inheritance, and marrieth Ruth, Ruth 4:9. She beareth Obed the grandfather of David, Ruth 4:13. The genealogy from Pharez unto David, Ruth 4:18. The gate; the place where controversies were decided, and the people assembled, and where they used to go out and come in to the town; where he was most likely to find his kinsman. Ho, such a one! doubtless Boaz both knew his name, and called him by it; but it is omitted by the holy writer, partly because it was unnecessary to know it; and principally in way of contempt, as is usual, and as a just punishment upon him, that he who would not preserve his brother's name might lose his own, and be buried in the grave of perpetual oblivion. Sit down here, I have some business of importance with you.