Ruth 2:1
_AND NAOMI HAD A KINSMAN OF HER HUSBAND'S, A MIGHTY MAN OF WEALTH, OF THE FAMILY OF ELIMELECH; AND HIS NAME WAS BOAZ._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NAOMI HAD A KINSMAN OF HER HUSBAND'S, A MIGHTY MAN OF WEALTH, OF THE FAMILY OF ELIMELECH; AND HIS NAME WAS BOAZ._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND RUTH THE MOABITESS SAID UNTO NAOMI, LET ME NOW GO TO THE FIELD, AND GLEAN EARS OF CORN AFTER HIM IN WHOSE SIGHT I SHALL FIND GRACE. AND SHE SAID UNTO HER, GO, MY DAUGHTER._ Ruth ... said ... Let me now go to the field, and glean. The right of gleaning was conferred by a positive law on the wid... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE WENT, AND CAME, AND GLEANED IN THE FIELD AFTER THE REAPERS: AND HER HAP WAS TO LIGHT ON A PART OF THE FIELD BELONGING UNTO BOAZ, WHO WAS OF THE KINDRED OF ELIMELECH._ A part of the field belonging unto Boaz. Fields in Palestine being unenclosed, the phrase signifies that portion of the ope... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BEHOLD, BOAZ CAME FROM BETHLEHEM, AND SAID UNTO THE REAPERS, THE LORD BE WITH YOU. AND THEY ANSWERED HIM, THE LORD BLESS THEE._ The Lord be with you. This pious salutation between the master and his labourers strongly indicates the state of religious feeling among the rural population of Israe... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID BOAZ UNTO HIS SERVANT THAT WAS SET OVER THE REAPERS, WHOSE DAMSEL IS THIS?_ His servant that was set over the reapers - an overseer, whose special duty was to superintend the operations in the field, to supply provisions to the reapers, and pay them for their labour in the evening.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SERVANT THAT WAS SET OVER THE REAPERS ANSWERED AND SAID, IT IS THE MOABITISH DAMSEL THAT CAME BACK WITH NAOMI OUT OF THE COUNTRY OF MOAB:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE SAID, I PRAY YOU, LET ME GLEAN AND GATHER AFTER THE REAPERS AMONG THE SHEAVES: SO SHE CAME, AND HATH CONTINUED EVEN FROM THE MORNING UNTIL NOW, THAT SHE TARRIED A LITTLE IN THE HOUSE._ After the reapers among the sheaves. Various modes of reaping are practiced in the East. Where the crop i... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID BOAZ UNTO RUTH, HEAREST THOU NOT, MY DAUGHTER? GO NOT TO GLEAN IN ANOTHER FIELD, NEITHER GO FROM HENCE, BUT ABIDE HERE FAST BY MY MAIDENS:_ Abide here fast by my maidens. The reaping was performed by women, while the assortment of sheaves was the duty of men-servants. The same division o... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET THINE EYES BE ON THE FIELD THAT THEY DO REAP, AND GO THOU AFTER THEM: HAVE I NOT CHARGED THE YOUNG MEN THAT THEY SHALL NOT TOUCH THEE? AND WHEN THOU ART ATHIRST, GO UNTO THE VESSELS, AND DRINK OF THAT WHICH THE YOUNG MEN HAVE DRAWN._ Go unto the vessels. Gleaners were sometimes allowed, by kin... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SHE FELL ON HER FACE, AND BOWED HERSELF TO THE GROUND, AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHY HAVE I FOUND GRACE IN THINE EYES, THAT THOU SHOULDEST TAKE KNOWLEDGE OF ME, SEEING I AM A STRANGER?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BOAZ SAID UNTO HER, AT MEALTIME COME THOU HITHER, AND EAT OF THE BREAD, AND DIP THY MORSEL IN THE VINEGAR. AND SHE SAT BESIDE THE REAPERS: AND HE REACHED HER PARCHED CORN, AND SHE DID EAT, AND WAS SUFFICED, AND LEFT._ He reached her parched grain - some of the new grain, roasted on the spot, a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN SHE WAS RISEN UP TO GLEAN, BOAZ COMMANDED HIS YOUNG MEN, SAYING, LET HER GLEAN EVEN AMONG THE SHEAVES, AND REPROACH HER NOT:_ Boaz commanded his young men ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND LET FALL ALSO SOME OF THE HANDFULS OF PURPOSE FOR HER, AND LEAVE THEM, THAT SHE MAY GLEAN THEM, AND REBUKE HER NOT._ Let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her. The gleaners in the East glean with much success; because a great quantity of grain is scattered in the reaping, as well a... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO SHE GLEANED IN THE FIELD UNTIL EVEN, AND BEAT OUT THAT SHE HAD GLEANED: AND IT WAS ABOUT AN EPHAH OF BARLEY._ And beat out that she had gleaned. When the quantity of grain was small, it was beat out by means of a stick. This process is frequently seen at the present day on the same fields by wo... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE TOOK IT UP, AND WENT INTO THE CITY: AND HER MOTHER IN LAW SAW WHAT SHE HAD GLEANED: AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH, AND GAVE TO HER THAT SHE HAD RESERVED AFTER SHE WAS SUFFICED._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NAOMI SAID UNTO HER DAUGHTER IN LAW, BLESSED BE HE OF THE LORD, WHO HATH NOT LEFT OFF HIS KINDNESS TO THE LIVING AND TO THE DEAD. AND NAOMI SAID UNTO HER, THE MAN IS NEAR OF KIN UNTO US, ONE OF OUR NEXT KINSMEN._ The man is ... one of our next kinsmen - Hebrew, 'one of our redeemers,' on whom... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND RUTH THE MOABITESS SAID, HE SAID UNTO ME ALSO, THOU SHALT KEEP FAST BY MY YOUNG MEN, UNTIL THEY HAVE ENDED ALL MY HARVEST._ All my harvest - both barley and wheat harvests. The latter was at the end of May or the beginning of June.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NAOMI SAID UNTO RUTH HER DAUGHTER IN LAW, IT IS GOOD, MY DAUGHTER, THAT THOU GO OUT WITH HIS MAIDENS, THAT THEY MEET THEE NOT IN ANY OTHER FIELD._ It is good ... that thou go out with his maidens - a prudent recommendation to Ruth to accept the generous invitation of Boaz, lest, if she were se... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO SHE KEPT FAST BY THE MAIDENS OF BOAZ TO GLEAN UNTO THE END OF BARLEY HARVEST AND OF WHEAT HARVEST; AND DWELT WITH HER MOTHER IN LAW._ She kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest. The reaping of barley commenced the harvest (2 Samuel 21:9), a... [ Continue Reading ]