Ruth 2:1

Now her husband Elimelech had a kinsman, a powerful man, and very rich, whose name was Booz.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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 her mother in law: If thou wilt, I will go into the field, and glean the ears of corn that escape the hands of the reapers, wheresoever I shall find grace with a householder that will be favourable to me. And she answered her: Go, my daughter.

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Cross References

Judges 12:8After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Israel:

Ruth 3:2This Booz, with whose maids thou wast joined in the field, is our near kinsman, and behold this night he winnoweth barley in the threshingfloor.

Ruth 4:21Salmon begot Booz, Booz begot Obed,

1 Chronicles 2:10And Ram beget Aminadab, and Aminadab beget Nahasson, prince of the children of Juda.

Job 31:25If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.

Luke 3:32Who was of Jesse, who was of Obed, who was of Booz, who was of Salmon, who was of Naasson,

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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