Ruth 3:6 “So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.” Do you know what was done on the threshing floor? Yes, that’s right. Threshing. Now, to be perfectly honest with you, I had to look this up. I had a general idea of what threshing was, […]

Ruth 3:1 – 6 “One day Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, ‘My daughter, should I not try to find a home for you, where you will be well provided for? Is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been, a kinsman of ours? Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. […]

Ruth 3:1 – 6 “One day Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, ‘My daughter, should I not try to find a home for you, where you will be well provided for? Is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been, a kinsman of ours? Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. […]

Ruth 2:21 – 23 “Then Ruth the Moabitess said, ‘He even said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.’ Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, ‘It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with his girls, because in someone else’s field you might be harmed.’ So Ruth […]

Ruth 2:20 “The Lord bless him!’ Naomi said to her daughter-in law. ‘He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.’ She added, ‘That man is our close relative; he is one of our kinsman-redeemers.” The kinsman-redeemer law is a unique and beautiful law, and paints a wonderful picture of our […]

Ruth 2:19 – 20 “Her mother-in-law asked her, ‘Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!’ Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. ‘The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,’ she said.” Have […]

Ruth 2:17 – 18 “So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah. She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what was left over after she […]

Ruth 2:15 – 16 “As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, don’t embarrass her. Rather, pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don’t rebuke her.” Boaz was a genuinely good man. Jewish […]

Ruth 2:14 “At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in some wine vinegar.” When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over.” My, my. I just love a good romance story, don’t you? […]

Ruth 2:13 “May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord,” she said. “You have given me comfort and have spoken kindly to your servant – though I do not have the standing of one of your servant girls.” Ruth was beautiful. She was kind, loyal, and hardworking. But do you know what […]