Ruth 2:1

Now Naomi was related through her husband to a very wealthy man of the family of Elimelech named 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

2Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me now go into the fields and gather leftover grain behind anyone who will allow me.” “Go, my daughter,” she replied.

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Cross References

Ruth 3:2Is not Boaz, with whose girls you have been, a relative of ours?

Ruth 4:21Salmon of Boaz, Boaz of Obed,

Luke 3:32Jesse, Obed, Boaz, Salah, 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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