Chapter Book
Loading
Change Translation
Loading...
  • Recent Translations
  • All Translations

Ruth 2:18-23

Share

Settings

18 And she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over 1after being satisfied.
19 And her mother-in-law said to her, "Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man 2who took notice of you." So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz."
20 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, 3"May he be blessed by the LORD, whose kindness has not forsaken 4the living or the dead!" Naomi also said to her, "The man is a close relative of ours, one of 5our redeemers."
21 And Ruth the Moabite said, "Besides, he said to me, 'You shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.'"
22 And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted."
23 So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
Read Chapter Compare

Ruth 2:18-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO RUTH 2

In this chapter we have an account of Ruth's gleaning corn in the fields of Boaz, a relation of Naomi, Ru 2:1-3, and of Boaz coming to his reapers, whom he saluted in a very kind manner; and observing a woman gleaning after them, inquired of them who she was, and they informed him, Ru 2:4-9, upon which he addressed himself to her, and gave her leave to glean in his field, and desired her to go nowhere else, and bid her eat and drink with his servants, Ru 2:8-14 and gave directions to his servants to let her glean, and to let fall some of the handfuls on purpose, that she might gather them up, Ru 2:15-17 and then an account is given of her returning to her mother-in-law with her gleanings, to whom she related where she had gleaned, who was owner of the field, and what he had said to her, upon which Naomi gave her advice, Ru 2:18-23.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 5

  • 1. ver. 14
  • 2. ver. 10
  • 3. Ruth 3:10; Judges 17:2; 1 Samuel 15:13; 1 Samuel 23:21; 2 Samuel 2:5
  • 4. Ruth 1:8
  • 5. Ruth 3:9; Ruth 4:14
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.