And when she was risen up to glean,.... After she had ate sufficiently, and refreshed herself, she rose up from her seat to go into the field and glean again; which shows her industry:Boaz commanded his young men; the reapers, or who gathered the handfuls, and bound them up in sheaves:saying, let her glean even among the sheaves; this she had requested of the reapers when she first came into the field, and it was granted her, Ru 2:7 but this, as it was granted by Boaz himself, so was still a greater favour; and there is some difference in the expression, for it may be rendered here, "among those sheaves" , pointing to a particular spot where might be the best ears of corn, and where more of them had fallen:and reproach her not; as not with her being a poor woman, a widow, a Moabitish woman, so neither with being a thief, or taking such corn she should not, or gleaning where she ought not.
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Ruth 2:15
Ruth 2:15
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Ruth 2 — OverviewRuth 2 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThere 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
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his carriage both towards his own servants and towards this poor
stranger.
I. Towards his own servants, and those that were employed for him…Ruth 2:15Ruth 2:15 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgeglean: The word glean comes from the French glaner: to gather ears or grains of corn. This was formerly a general custom in England and Ireland. The poor went into the fields, and collected the straggling ears of corn…