The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.
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The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.
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And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
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And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said: 'It is a Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the field of Moab;
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Passages linked to Ruth 2:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
- Matthew 24:45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
- Genesis 15:2 Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
- Genesis 24:2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.
- Genesis 39:4 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
- Ruth 1:16 Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
- Ruth 1:19 So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”
- Matthew 20:8 When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Rth 2:6 And the servant that was set over…
Rth 2:6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It [is] the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
Ver. 6. And the servant.] He gives a ready answer, a good account, Rationem cum domino crebro putet, saith Cato {a} concerning a steward.
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It is the Moabitish damsel.] He commendeth her for her virtues, little thinking that shortly she should be his mistress. This was fair, and not ordinary. Vituperant homines quam collaudant promptius. Malignity and morosity reigneth everywhere.
{a} De Re Rust, cap. v.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. That came with Naomi when she came back;…
i.e. That came with Naomi when she came back; for otherwise, as Ruth did not go from thence, so she could not properly be said to come back.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the servant that was set over the reapers…
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said,.... Who had taken a great deal of notice of Ruth, and had conversed with her, and so was capable of giving answers to his master's question:
it is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi, out of the country of Moab; perhaps he had not got knowledge of her name, and therefore only describes her by the country from whence she came; and by her coming from thence along with Naomi, when she returned from Moab, with whose name Boaz was well acquainted, and of whose return he had been informed; and perhaps had seen her in person, and even Ruth also, though he might have forgot her; the Targum makes the servant to add, that she was become a proselytess.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6. The Moabitish damsel — Boaz had heard of…
6. The Moabitish damsel — Boaz had heard of her, and had been much interested in her history, (Rth_2:11,) but he had not seen her before, so that this was their first meeting.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6, 7) The steward gives a detailed account of…
(6, 7) The steward gives a detailed account of Ruth. She is “the (rather “a”) Moabitish damsel,” she is a foreigner [as such she had a special claim to the gleaning, Lev_19:9-10]. She is the daughter-in-law of Naomi; and he adds that her behaviour has been praiseworthy, for she asked leave before beginning to glean, and she has worked hard all day, save for a short interval of rest. It would seem that Boaz’s visit to the field fell at the time when Ruth was thus resting: “This is her tarrying for a little in the house”; apparently, that is, some rude shelter from the heat set up in the field, like the lodge of Isa_1:8.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the young man who was set over the…
And the young man who was set over the reapers replied and said, She is a Moabitish young woman who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab. The young man had already received, no doubt from her own lips, particulars regarding the attractive stranger. Instead of the free definitive rendering of Luther and King James"s English version, the Moabitish damsel," it is better, with Michaelis, Wright, Raabe, to adhere to the original indefiniteness, "a Moabitish maiden." Note the Zeugmatic use of the word returned as applied here, as well as in Rth_1:22, not only to Naomi, but also to Ruth. It is thus used on the same Zeugmatic principle as the word die in Gen_47:19: "Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land?"
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