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Verse Ruth 2:13. _NOT LIKE UNTO ONE OF THINE HAND-MAIDENS._] I am as
unworthy of thy regards as any of thine own maidservants, and yet thou
showest me distinguished kindness....
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CHAPTER 2 GLEANING IN THE FIELD
_ 1. Ruth gleaning in the field of Boaz (Ruth 2:1)_
2. Grace shown to Ruth by Boaz (Ruth 2:4)
3. Ruth hears concerning Boaz (Ruth 2:18)
Boaz comes now upon the scene...
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THE MEETING OF BOAZ AND RUTH. Naomi's kinsman quite a different word
from the near kinsman (goë l) of Ruth 2:20 is introduced in Heb.
words which sometimes denoted a wealthy man, and sometimes a valia...
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FRIENDLY. to the heart.
THOUGH. BE NOT. Or, Oh that. might be....
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_comforted … spoken kindly unto_ The same words in Isaiah 40:1-2.
See on Judges 19:3.
_though I be not_ As a stranger Ruth is not like one of his
handmaidens; she has no right to expect such friendly...
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THOUGH I BE NOT LIKE UNTO ONE OF THY HANDMAIDENS— Nothing can be
more amiable than this humility of Ruth. Extolling the favour of Boaz
to her to the utmost, she, as it were, annihilates herself;
profe...
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_The Kindness of Boaz Ruth 2:8-16_
8 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:
9 Let thine ey...
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_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 comment...
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2:13 to (g-26) Lit. 'spoken to the heart of.' handmaid, (h-28) Or
'bondwoman.'...
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RUTH THE GLEANER
1. Boaz] ('quickness') was a kinsman of Elimelech's. We are not
informed of the precise degree of relationship. Here and at Ruth 3:2
he is designated an 'acquaintance.' It is by no me...
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With joyful surprise she exclaims, LET ME FIND FAVOUR IN THY SIGHT!
or, rather, 'I find grace in thy sight!' There is something very
beautiful in the literal meaning of the words rendered 'Thou hast
s...
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THERE IS A *REDEEMER
BOOK OF RUTH
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Words in boxes are notes on the Bible text.
CHAPTER 2
V1 Elimelech had been Naomi’s husband. Boaz was a *relation of
Elimelech. Boaz was a...
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FRIENDLY. — Literally, _unto the heart._ The same phrase is rendered
_comfortably_ (Isaiah 40:2)....
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וַ֠ תֹּאמֶר אֶמְצָא ־חֵ֨ן בְּ
עֵינֶ֤יךָ אֲדֹנ
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GLEANING AFTER THE REAPERS
Ruth 2:1
In great desolation of soul, Naomi had returned. She was no longer the
happy woman of earlier days. Ruth also must sometimes have experienced
the depression of hom...
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The women went home to poverty, where the practical problems of life
faced them. These were, of course, rendered the more difficult by the
fact that Ruth was a Moabitess. Yet she it was who faced the...
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Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou
hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine
handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens...
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FROM: LECTURES INTRODUCTORY TO THE EARLIER HISTORICAL BOOKS OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT.
W. Kelly.
That the book of Ruth stands most fitly in the place where it is
actually found must have been felt by the...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4.
The Book of Ruth tells us also of the days of the judges, when there
was no king in Israel; but it shews us the fair side of those days, in
the o...
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THEN SHE SAID, LET ME FIND FAVOUR IN THY SIGHT, MY LORD,.... Or
rather, since she had found favour in his sight already: the words are
to be considered, not as a wish for it, but as acknowledging it,...
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Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou
hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine
handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens...
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_She said, Let me find favour_ Or, _I find favour_, &c. For it is
evidently an acknowledgment of the kindness she had already received,
and not a petition for a further kindness. _Though I be not like...
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1 Ruth gleaneth in the fields of Boaz.
4 Boaz taking knowledge of her,
8 sheweth her great fauour.
18 That which she got, shee carieth to Naomi.
1 AND Naomi had a kinseman of her husbands, a might...
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Then she said, with the same modesty which characterized her behavior
throughout, LET ME FIND FAVOR IN THY SIGHT, MY LORD; FOR THAT THOU
HAST COMFORTED ME, AND FOR THAT THOU HAST SPOKEN FRIENDLY, lite...
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IN THE FIELD OF BOAZ...
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RUTH AND THE MAN OF GREAT WEALTH
(vv. 1-23)
Verse 1 of this chapter introduces us to Boaz, a man of great wealth
who is clearly a type of the Lord Jesus. Besides being wealthy, he was
a close relat...
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LET ME FIND FAVOR:
Or, I find favor
FRIENDLY:
_ Heb._ to the heart...
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4-16 The pious and kind language between Boaz and his reapers shows
that there were godly persons in Israel. Such language as this is
seldom heard in our field; too often, on the contrary, what is im...
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LET ME FIND FAVOUR IN THY SIGHT; I humbly implore the continuance of
thy good opinion of me, though I do not deserve it. NOT LIKE UNTO ONE
OF THY HANDMAIDENS; a person more mean, and necessitous, and...
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Ruth 2:13 said H559 (H8799) find H4672 (H8799) favor H2580 sight H5869
lord H113 comforted H5162 ...
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‘ Then she said, “Let me find favour in your sight, my lord, for
you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your
handmaid, although I am as one of your handmaidens.”
Ruth responds to...
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RUTH 1-4
The Book of Ruth is a love-story told in four Chapter s. It gives us a
glimpse of everyday life in Bethlehem; in home and in harvest-field,
in its general gossip and its law-suits, more than...
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CONTENTS: Ruth serves Boaz who exercises a great kindness toward her.
CHARACTERS: God, Ruth, Naomi, Boaz.
CONCLUSION: God wisely orders small events and those that seem
altogether contingent serve H...
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Ruth 2:7. _Let me glean._ She modestly asked this as a favour, which
the law itself had allowed the poor.
Ruth 2:10. _She fell on her face,_ honouring Boaz as a prince and
venerable father.
Ruth 2:14...
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_Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast
comforted me._
GOOD FROM ENCOURAGING WORDS
Is there not a useful suggestion in all this to persons in places of
authority and influence?...
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RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 2:1 Scene 2: Ruth Gleans in Boaz’s Field. This
encounter between Ruth and Boaz in the harvest field is one of their
two crucial meetings.
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—LET ME FIND FAVOUR. I find favour
(_Le Clerc, Bertheau_). This trans. not in accordance with the modesty
of humility, which Ruth manifests in the following words (_Keil_...
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EXPOSITION
RUTH 2:10
RUTH did not seize the opportunity for bewailing the hardship of the
lot to which she had been reduced, and which now constrained her to
undertake a species of work which at one...
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Now Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of
the family of Elimelech; his name was Boaz (Ruth 2:1).
So Elimelech had, and in the fourth chapter Boaz calls him, "our
brother El...
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1 Samuel 1:18; 1 Samuel 25:41; 2 Samuel 16:4; Genesis 33:10; Gene
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Tho' I be not — I humbly implore the continuance of thy good opinion
of me, though I do not deserve it, being a person more mean,
necessitous, and, obscure, a stranger, and one born of heathen
parents...