Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
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Gill's Exposition
Her husband is known in the gates,.... Of the city, where courts of justice were kept, and causes heard and tried by the judges, the elders of the land, later mentioned; among whom the husband of the…
Barnes' Notes
The industry of the wife leaves the husband free to take his place among the elders that sit in councils.
This description of the virtuous woman is designed to show what wives the women should make and what wives the men should choose; it consists of twenty-two verses, each beginning with a letter of the…
Cambridge Bible
is known both by the fitting attire and by the freedom from anxiety and distraction, which her care and industry secure to him. Dean Plumptre in Speaker's Comm. quotes the words of Nausicaa to her…
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