Ruth 2:1

Forsooth (there was) a mighty man and a man of great riches, Boaz by name, (who) was (a) kinsman of Elimelech.

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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 of Moab said to her mother-in-law, If thou commandest, I shall go into the field, and I shall gather ears of corn that flee the hands of (the) reapers, wherever I shall find grace of an husbandman merciful in me (or wherever I shall find favour from a farmer, who is merciful to me). To whom she answered, Go, my daughter.

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Cross References

Judges 12:8Ibzan of Bethlehem, that had thirty sons, and so many daughters, deemed Israel after Jephthah; (And Ibzan of Bethlehem, who had thirty sons, and as many daughters, judged, or ruled, Israel after Jephthah;)

Ruth 3:2This Boaz, to whose damsels thou were joined (to) in the field, is our kinsman, and in this night he winnoweth the cornfloor of barley (or and tonight he thresheth barley at his threshing floor).

Ruth 4:21Salmon begat Boaz; Boaz begat Obed;

1 Chronicles 2:10And Ram begat Amminadab. And Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah.

Job 31:25if I was glad on my many riches, and for mine hand found full many things;

Luke 3:32that was of Jesse, that was of Obed, that was of Booz, that was of Salmon, that 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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