Ruth 3:1

Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a place for you to rest, so that things may go well for 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

2Now Boaz, the man whose young female workers you have been with, is he not our kinsman? Look, he will be winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:14But think of me when it goes well with you, and please show kindness to me. Mention me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this prison.

Ruth 1:9May the Lord grant you that you find rest, each of you in the house of another husband.” Then she kissed them, and they raised their voices and cried.

Jeremiah 22:15Is this what makes you a good king, that you wanted to have boards of cedar? 1 Did not your father also eat and drink, yet do justice and righteousness? Then things went well for him. 1

1 Timothy 5:8But if someone does not provide for his own relatives, especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith and 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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