Ruth 3:1

Then Naomi her chamot said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek manoach (a resting place) for thee, that it may be well with thee?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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 our relative, with whose ne'arot thou wast? Hinei, he winnoweth haseorim halailah in the threshing floor.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:14But remember me + 40:14 See Am 6:6 when it shall be well with thee, and show chesed now unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this bais;

Ruth 1:9Hashem grant you that ye may find menuchah (resting place), each of you in the bais of her ish. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

Jeremiah 22:15Shalt thou reign, because thou enclose thyself in erez (cedar)? 1 Did not Avicha eat and drink, 1 and do mishpat and tzedakah, 1 and then it was tov (well) with him? 1

1 Timothy 5:8But if anyone does not get a parnasah to provide for his own mishpochah and especially his own bais, he has denied the emunah + 5:8 of Moshiach and is worse than an Apikoros (skeptic, 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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