Ruth 3:1

And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, am I not to get you a resting-place where you may be in comfort?

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Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

In Context

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.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:14But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison:

Ruth 1:9May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly.

Jeremiah 22:15Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

1 Timothy 5:8If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.

Matthew Henry on Ruth 3:1

We found it very easy, in the former chapter, to applaud the decency of Ruth's behaviour, and to show what good use we may make of the account given us of it; but in this chapter we shall have much ado to vindicate it from the imputation of indecency, and to save it from having an ill use made of it; but the goodness of those times was such as saved what is recorded here from being ill done, and yet the badness of these times is such as that it will not justify any now in doing the like. Here is, I. The directions… Read the whole commentary →

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