Ruth 4:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.

Ruth 4:9 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 23:16-18
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. …
Jeremiah 32:10-12
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-12)

Boaz now sees his way clear, and therefore delays not to perform his promise made to Ruth that he would do the kinsman’s part, but in the gate of the city, before the elders and all the people, publishes a marriage-contract between himself and Ruth the Moabitess, and therewith the purchase of all the estate that belonged to the family of Elimelech. If he had not been (Ruth 2:1) a mighty man of wea…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. Boaz said unto the elders, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was ... Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, of the hand of Naomi--Although the widow of Chilion was still living, no regard was paid to her in the disposal of her husband’s property. From her remaining in Moab, she was considered to have either been married again, or to have renounced all right to an inheritance with the fami…