_THEN WENT BOAZ UP TO THE GATE, AND SAT HIM DOWN THERE: AND, BEHOLD, THE KINSMAN OF WHOM BOAZ SPAKE CAME BY; UNTO WHOM HE SAID, HO, SUCH A ONE! TURN ASIDE, SIT DOWN HERE. AND HE TURNED ASIDE, AND SAT DOWN._ Then went Boaz up to the gate - a roofed building, unenclosed by walls; the place where in a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE TOOK TEN MEN OF THE ELDERS OF THE CITY, AND SAID, SIT YE DOWN HERE. AND THEY SAT DOWN._ _ AND HE TOOK TEN MEN OF THE ELDERS OF THE CITY, AND SAID, SIT YE DOWN HERE. AND THEY SAT DOWN._ Ten men of the elders of the city-as witnesses. In ordinary circumstances two or three were sufficient to... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO THE KINSMAN, NAOMI, THAT IS COME AGAIN OUT OF THE COUNTRY OF MOAB, SELLETH A PARCEL OF LAND, WHICH WAS OUR BROTHER ELIMELECH'S:_ Naomi ... selleth a parcel - i:e., entertains the idea of selling. In her circumstances she was at liberty to part with it (Leviticus 25:25). Both Naomi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I THOUGHT TO ADVERTISE THEE, SAYING, BUY IT BEFORE THE INHABITANTS, AND BEFORE THE ELDERS OF MY PEOPLE. IF THOU WILT REDEEM IT, REDEEM IT: BUT IF THOU WILT NOT REDEEM IT, THEN TELL ME, THAT I MAY KNOW: FOR THERE IS NONE TO REDEEM IT BESIDE THEE; AND I AM AFTER THEE. AND HE SAID, I WILL REDEEM I... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID BOAZ, WHAT DAY THOU BUYEST THE FIELD OF THE HAND OF NAOMI, THOU MUST BUY IT ALSO OF RUTH THE MOABITESS, THE WIFE OF THE DEAD, TO RAISE UP THE NAME OF THE DEAD UPON HIS INHERITANCE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KINSMAN SAID, I CANNOT REDEEM IT FOR MYSELF, LEST I MAR MINE OWN INHERITANCE: REDEEM THOU MY RIGHT TO THYSELF; FOR I CANNOT REDEEM IT._ I cannot redeem it ... lest I mar mine own inheritance. This consequence would follow, either, first, from his having a son by Ruth, who, though heir to t... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THIS WAS THE MANNER IN FORMER TIME IN ISRAEL CONCERNING REDEEMING AND CONCERNING CHANGING, FOR TO CONFIRM ALL THINGS; A MAN PLUCKED OFF HIS SHOE, AND GAVE IT TO HIS NEIGHBOUR: AND THIS WAS A TESTIMONY IN ISRAEL._ A man plucked off his shoe. Where the kinsman refused to perform his duty to the... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE THE KINSMAN SAID UNTO BOAZ, BUY IT FOR THEE. SO HE DREW OFF HIS SHOE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND 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._ All that was Chilion's and Mahion's, of the hand of Naomi. Although the widow of Chilion was still living,... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER RUTH THE MOABITESS, THE WIFE OF MAHLON, HAVE I PURCHASED TO BE MY WIFE, TO RAISE UP THE NAME OF THE DEAD UPON HIS INHERITANCE, THAT THE NAME OF THE DEAD BE NOT CUT OFF FROM AMONG HIS BRETHREN, AND FROM THE GATE OF HIS PLACE: YE ARE WITNESSES THIS DAY._ Ruth the Moabitess ... have I purcha... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN THE GATE, AND THE ELDERS, SAID, WE ARE WITNESSES. THE LORD MAKE THE WOMAN THAT IS COME INTO THINE HOUSE LIKE RACHEL AND LIKE LEAH, WHICH TWO DID BUILD THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL: AND DO THOU WORTHILY IN EPHRATAH, AND BE FAMOUS IN BETHLEHEM:_ All the people ... and the elde... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND LET THY HOUSE BE LIKE THE HOUSE OF PHAREZ, WHOM TAMAR BARE UNTO JUDAH, OF THE SEED WHICH THE LORD SHALL GIVE THEE OF THIS YOUNG WOMAN._ Let thy house be like the house of Pharez - i:e., as honourable and numerous as his, he was the ancestor of the Beth-lehem people, and his family one of the f... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO BOAZ TOOK RUTH, AND SHE WAS HIS WIFE: AND WHEN HE WENT IN UNTO HER, THE LORD GAVE HER CONCEPTION, AND SHE BARE A SON._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WOMEN HER NEIGHBOURS GAVE IT A NAME, SAYING, THERE IS A SON BORN TO NAOMI; AND THEY CALLED HIS NAME OBED: HE IS THE FATHER OF JESSE, THE FATHER OF DAVID._ Obed - means 'servant.'... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF PHAREZ: PHAREZ BEGAT HEZRON,_ These are the generations of Pharez - i:e., his descendants. This appendix shows that the special object contemplated by the inspired author of this little book was to preserve the memory of an interesting domestic episode, and to trac... [ Continue Reading ]