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Boaz invites Ruth to lunch
Ruth 2:14–23
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Boaz invited Ruth to eat lunch with him and his workers (v. 14). They would often tie a few stalks of grain together and roast it over a blazing fire. Ruth had all she wanted to eat and still had food left over. Her being able to eat with Boaz and the reapers was a mark of special favor. After the meal Ruth returned to the field to glean. The law gave the gleaners the right to go over the field after the reapers had taken all they wanted. However Boaz instructed his reapers to drop some grain along the way for her (v. 15). At the end of the day she had about three fourths of a bushel (vv. 16-17).
She took what she had gleaned and went to where Naomi was staying (v. 18). It also appears that Boaz had sent along a quantity of food so that Ruth was able to present this to Naomi. Naomi realizes that some special favor has been shown to Ruth and she looks for the source (v. 19). When Ruth shares that Boaz was responsible for this special favor Naomi breaks out in praise to God (v. 20). She then tells Ruth that Boaz is a relative and a next of kin. She then advises Ruth to stay with Boaz’s maidens and glean to the end of the harvest (vv. 21-23). Ruth continued to live with Naomi and work in the fields until the barley and wheat was all harvested.Application
I need to look for any widows whom I could help by showing special favors to them? This is something that is greatly neglected by many families and churches today (1 Tim 5:16).
Ruth 2:14-23 (English Standard Version)
And at mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine." So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over. When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her." So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. And she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied. And her mother-in-law said to her, "Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you." So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz." And Naomi said to her daughter-in- law, "May he be blessed by the LORD, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!" Naomi also said to her, "The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers." And Ruth the Moabite said, "Besides, he said to me, 'You shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.'" And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted." So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
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