Ruth 3:1

And her mother-in-law Naomi says to her, “My daughter, do I not seek rest for you, 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

2And now, is not Boaz of our acquaintance, with whose young women you have been? Behold, he is winnowing the threshing-floor of barley tonight,

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Cross References

Genesis 40:14Surely if you have remembered me with you, when it is well with you, and have please done kindness with me, and have made mention of me to Pharaoh, then you have brought me out from this house,

Ruth 1:9YHWH grants to you, and you find rest each in the house of her husband”; and she kisses them, and they lift up their voice and weep.

Jeremiah 22:15Do you reign, because you are fretting yourself in cedar? Your father—did he not eat and drink? Indeed, he did judgment and righteousness, || Then [it is] well with him.

1 Timothy 5:8and if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of the 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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