Rut 2:20, 3:2, 9, 12, 4:4-6, Jer 32:7-8, 2Cor 8:9, Heb 2:13-14, Rev 5:9 | TSK | STEP | Blessed. hath not. one of our. or, one that hath right to redeem.

Ruth 2:20

Blessed.

3:10; 2Sa 2:5; Job 29:12,13; 2Ti 1:16-18

hath not.

2Sa 9:1; Pr 17:17; Php 4:10

one of our. or, one that hath right to redeem.

3:9; 4:6; Le 25:25; De 25:5-7; Job 19:25

Ruth 3:2

is not Boaz.

2:20-23; De 25:5,6; Heb 2:11-14

with whose.

2:8,23

he winnoweth.It is probable that the winnowing of grain was effected by taking up a portion of the corn in a sieve, and letting it down slowly in the wind; thus the grain would, by its own weight, fall in one place, while the chaff, etc., would be carried a distance by the wind. It is said here that this was done at night; probably what was threshed out in the day was winnowed in the evening, when the sea breeze set in, which was common in Palestine.

Ruth 3:9

Ruth.

2:10-13; 1Sa 25:41; Lu 14:11

spread therefore.Hebrew "spread thy wing;" the emblem of protection; and a metaphor taken from the young of fowls, which run under the wings of their mother from birds of prey. Even to the present day, when a Jew marries a woman, he throws the skirts of his {talith} over her, to signify that he has taken her under his protection.

Eze 16:8

a near kinsman. or, one that has right to redeem.

12; 2:20

Ruth 3:12

there is.

4:1; Mt 7:12; 1Th 4:6

Ruth 4:4-6

I thought. Heb. I said I will reveal in thine ear. Buy it.

Jer 32:7-9,25; Ro 12:17; 2Co 8:21; Php 4:8

before the inhabitants.

Ge 23:18; Jer 32:10-12

for there is none.

Le 25:25-29

What day.Or rather, according to the emendations proposed by Houbigant and Dr. Kennicott, and which have been confirmed by a great many MSS. since collated, and agreeably to the ancient versions, "In the day thou purchasest the land from the hand of Naomi, thou wilt also acquire Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead," etc. This is Boaz's statement of the case to his kinsman, before the people and elders.

to raise up.

3:12,13; Ge 38:8; De 25:5,6; Mt 22:24; Lu 20:28

I cannot.The Targum seems to give the proper sense of this passage: "I cannot redeem it, because I have a wife already; and it is not fit for me to bring another into my house, lest brawling and contention arise in it; and lest I hurt my own inheritance. Do thou redeem it, for thou has no wife; which hinders me from redeeming it."

Jeremiah 32:7-8

Behold.

1Ki 14:5; Mr 11:2-6; 14:13-16

Anathoth.

1:1; 11:21; Jos 21:18,19

for.

Le 25:23,34,49; Nu 35:2; Ru 4:4-9

court.

2; 33:1

Anathoth.

7; 1Ki 2:26; 1Ch 6:60

Then I.

1Sa 9:16,17; 10:3-7; 1Ki 22:25; Zec 11:11; Joh 4:53; Ac 10:17-28

that this.That it was by His appointment that I was to make this purchase; the whole of which was designed as a symbolical act, to shew the people, that although Judah and Jerusalem should be desolated, and the inhabitants carried captive to Babylon, yet there should be a restoration, when lands and possessions should be again enjoyed by their legal owners, in the same manner as formerly. During the famine that prevailed in the city, Hanameel probably wanted money to purchase bread, and his field would not be thought of much value in such circumstances, which may account for the stipulated sum being so very small; for at 2s. 6d. the shekel, it would only amount to about 2£. 2s. 6d.