Ruth 2:1

And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

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And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

In Context

2And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.

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Cross References

Judges 12:8And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.

Ruth 3:2And now, is there not Boaz, our relation, with whose young women you were? See, tonight he is separating the grain from the waste in his grain-floor.

Ruth 4:21And Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed;

1 Chronicles 2:10And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah;

Job 31:25If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

Luke 3:32The son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

Matthew Henry on Ruth 2:1

There is scarcely any chapter in all the sacred history that stoops so low as this to take cognizance of so mean a person as Ruth, a poor Moabitish widow, so mean an action as her gleaning corn in a neighbour's field, and the minute circumstances thereof. But all this was in order to her being grafted into the line of Christ and taken in among his ancestors, that she might be a figure of the espousals of the Gentile church to Christ, Isa. liv. 1 . This makes the story remarkable; and many of the passages of it are… Read the whole commentary →

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