Ruth 2:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest. ”

Ruth 2:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Meeting of Boaz and Ruth. Naomi's kinsman quite a different word from the near kinsman (goë l) of Ruth 2:20 is introduced in Heb. words which sometimes denoted a wealthy man, and sometimes a...
Ruth 2:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the Moabitess. See note on Ruth 1:4 ; Ruth 1:22 .
Ruth 2:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest. Keep fast by my young men - The word הנערים hannearim should be translat...
Ruth 2:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thou shalt keep fast by my young men— The word which we render young men, signifies all young people in general. We see by the following verse in what manner Naomi understood it. The LXX and Chal...
Ruth 2:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest. All my harvest - both barley and wheat harvests. The latter was...
Ruth 2:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth the Gleaner 1. Boaz] ('quickness') was a kinsman of Elimelech's. We are not informed of the precise degree of relationship. Here and at Ruth 3:2 he is designated an 'acquaintance.' It is by...
Ruth 2:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

My young men... my harvest. — Emphatic in the Hebrew. As long as my reaping lasts, cleave steadily to us.
Ruth 2:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Kindness to the Stranger Ruth 2:14-23 From the time of the Exodus, kind and thoughtful references are made to the strangers within the gates, Deuteronomy 5:14 ; Deuteronomy 10:19 . These inju...
Ruth 2:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The women went home to poverty, where the practical problems of life faced them. These were, of course, rendered the more difficult by the fact that Ruth was a Moabitess. Yet she it was who faced the...
Ruth 2:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest. Delightful thought! Jesus not only gives plentifully and suitably to hi...
Ruth 2:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Ruth the Moabitess said, he said unto me also ,.... Besides the favours he has shown me already, he has given me reason to expect more, for he has given me this strict order: thou shalt keep f...
Ruth 2:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest. Ver. 21. He said unto me also. ] She further setteth forth his courte...
Ruth 2:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou shalt keep fast by my young men Or, young people, as the word נערים, negnarim , although of the masculine gender, here signifies, and particularly the maidens, to whom he bid her keep close,...
Ruth 2:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

RUTH AND THE MAN OF GREAT WEALTH (vv. 1-23) Verse 1 of this chapter introduces us to Boaz, a man of great wealth who is clearly a type of the Lord Jesus. Besides being wealthy, he was a close re...
Ruth 2:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ruth's Report to Naomi. B. C. 1312. 17 So she gleaned in the field until even, and bea...
Ruth 2:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Both barley and wheat harvest, as is said, Ruth 2:23 .
Ruth 2:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall keep close to my young people (the masculine noun covering both men and women), until they have completed all my harvest.” Ruth then...
Ruth 2:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Her mother- in-law saw. With astonishment at the quantity evidently. And she brought forth. And she showed ( Vulgate, Syr.-Arab., Wright, Lange ). Brought forth out...
Ruth 2:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ruth 1-4 The Book of Ruth is a love-story told in four Chapter s. It gives us a glimpse of everyday life in Bethlehem; in home and in harvest-field, in its general gossip and its law-suits, more t...
Ruth 2:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 2:7 . Let me glean. She modestly asked this as a favour, which the law itself had allowed the poor. Ruth 2:10 . She fell on her face, honouring Boaz as a prince and venerable father. Ru...
Ruth 2:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ruth 2:18 And she lifted it up, and went into the city: and her mother-in-law beheld what she had gleaned. She likewise brought forth, and gave to her, what she had left over af...
Ruth 2:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Pleasure of Naomi
Ruth 2:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ruth 2:22 ; Ruth 2:7 ; Ruth 2:8 ; Song of Solomon 1:7 ; Song of Solomon 1:8
Ruth 2:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Harvest — Both barley — harvest, and wheat — harvest. She tells what kindness Boaz had shewed her; but not, how he had commended her. Humility teaches not only not to praise ourselves, but not to b...

Ruth 2:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 2:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ruth 2:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ruth 2:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ruth 2:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ruth 2:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 2:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ruth 2:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ruth 2:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ruth 2:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ruth 2:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ruth 2:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ruth 2:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 2:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 2:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ruth 2:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ruth 2:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 2:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ruth 2:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ruth 2:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 2:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ruth 2:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ruth 2:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ruth 2:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes