Ruth 3:1

But afterwards, when she returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi said to her: “My daughter, I will seek rest for you, and I will provide so that it may be well with you.

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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

2This Boaz, whose young women you joined in the field, is our near relative, and this night he will winnow the threshing floor of barley.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:14Only remember me, when it will be well with you, and do me this mercy, to suggest to Pharaoh to lead me out of this prison.

Ruth 1:9May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands, whom you will obtain by lot.” And she kissed them. They lifted up their voice, and began to weep,

Jeremiah 22:15Will you reign because you compare yourself to the cedar? Did your father not eat and drink, and act with judgment and justice, so that it would be well with him?

1 Timothy 5:8But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.

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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