{"id":4669,"date":"2024-11-14T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T15:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2024-11-14T12:10:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:10:39","slug":"ruth-chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/ruth-chapter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Chapter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beige-Modern-Abstract-Podcast-Logo.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/436602668_962737209194385_2520209546956624559_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/436602668_962737209194385_2520209546956624559_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4672\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/447239489_974419794692793_7118022959621409914_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/447239489_974419794692793_7118022959621409914_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4673\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/447281879_974419801359459_5631651878463825790_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/447281879_974419801359459_5631651878463825790_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4674\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/447305974_974419818026124_4323629851111330753_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/447305974_974419818026124_4323629851111330753_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4675\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a3bd00a50a62c7ba48e803f185d26292 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">This blog post is sponsored by Divine Desserts Publishing. Read one of <a href=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/books\/\">our novels<\/a> \u2013 sweet comforting soothing stories for parched souls. All books are Christian-themed and they are perfect for Bible study and church groups! Tell your friends by sharing this blog post! For those listening \u2013 the link is at the end of this blog post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9327e78ddccc46d6abc43819733f18ac wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">A number of things come to mind when I read Ruth Chapter 2. Boaz was quite taken with Ruth. He wanted to know more about her and he wanted to protect her. Love was on the horizon \u2013 you can tell by his actions. Also, he told the harvesters to leave some grain behind so that Ruth could pick it up and have plenty to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-24f9b7f0e79c1421cfda99ec928ac040 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">When they stopped for mid-day meal, Boaz offered her some roasted grain and bread dipped in wine vinegar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0c20375fb9395bfe04ee706e76b6a963 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">For a Sunday School project you should read this chapter and serve a meal to your students using similar food, if you\u2019re able to find it. I found some roasted grain on Amazon and I prepared it. I served it with some over-easy eggs. You can also eat it as a side dish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b431a1f0bed62caeea4f4ca8507cd79b wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">I cooked it in chicken broth. You must cook it for a long time \u2013 similar to the cooking time for brown rice. The roasted grain tasted okay \u2013 it reminded me of a cross between rice and oatmeal. It looks similar to oatmeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fb5506f83abcce1ca728b5c71dba7c44 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">Another thing that comes to mind is my childhood. When I read about Ruth and the other women gleaning wheat behind the harvesters, I recall my life on a military base. There was a huge cornfield on the edge of our neighborhood. I honestly don\u2019t know if the cornfield belonged to the government, or, if it was owned by another entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b3d957a64f029e6a6ee06483dda5613e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">To clarify, we lived on a patch of land, with other families, that belonged to the US Army. Our patch of land was surrounded by civilian territory. I was very young at the time, so, am unclear as to if the cornfield belonged to the government, or to a civilian entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-884d0b46afe4f198d0ee330f05e85431 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">After the corn was harvested my mom, me, my siblings, as well as a bunch of other people in the neighborhood, would go through the cornfield and pick up ears of corn that may have been missed. I\u2019m not sure why we did this! It was an activity that the community did together. We\u2019d husk and eat the corn later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-82862ad808bf6aa41d3c532423814bce wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">So, here\u2019s Ruth chapter 2 \u2013 don\u2019t forget to leave a comment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-14e99a86cb9662e8ead9e4d8ce2cdf80 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">Ruth 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b15ca01b0bc72a45d4ac696fc16acd63 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">New International Version<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8248eed725a4cf08755389c7c1eb6a44 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">Ruth Meets Boaz in the Grain Field<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-000d6ef5d638ddd6db6c0ba3215c40b1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">Now Naomi had a relative on her husband\u2019s side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-92876c9e905dda64d71240f3e2aed9cc wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, \u201cLet me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-55126952ce2bb7949393be587588e547 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">Naomi said to her, \u201cGo ahead, my daughter.\u201d 3 So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-03d6c9c2bcfc3ded8ad0b03318e2d76d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">4 Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, \u201cThe Lord be with you!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e8b36a019d34a46c4213bae662c71a63 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cThe Lord bless you!\u201d they answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-db9cb617acb551d2398afed6cdeba763 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">5 Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, \u201cWho does that young woman belong to?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2ae9773438c42c7593f2b3526f2369d0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">6 The overseer replied, \u201cShe is the Moabite who came back from Moab with Naomi. 7 She said, \u2018Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.\u2019 She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bf5262b86d3e7a036f481341bc400e97 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">8 So Boaz said to Ruth, \u201cMy daughter, listen to me. Don\u2019t go and glean in another field and don\u2019t go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me. 9 Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0c1d2709e525853cdb1872db4e3c57dd wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">10 At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, \u201cWhy have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me\u2014a foreigner?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f72d24735cc15b2243ce1984c8b6d806 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">11 Boaz replied, \u201cI\u2019ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband\u2014how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. 12 May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bfc834f99808f04d538366fe06368a04 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">13 \u201cMay I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant\u2014though I do not have the standing of one of your servants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-77595166b8a9c0483dbb60839d28b8a6 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">14 At mealtime Boaz said to her, \u201cCome over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2f0849bbde9fd517af4755bfb03c5ba7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some <strong>roasted grain<\/strong>. She ate all she wanted and had some left over. 15 As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, \u201cLet her gather among the sheaves and don\u2019t reprimand her. 16 Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don\u2019t rebuke her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-87a393a5b5a8ad3035405b46c03569e2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">17 So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah. 18 She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-04cb8e297c9a72c7b2365b8d3a2edb02 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">19 Her mother-in-law asked her, \u201cWhere did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9ae1b20765ff46fbb810c63ca1e7f843 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. \u201cThe name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5c62c9da06831a038d64d5be6fb20cb9 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">20 \u201cThe Lord bless him!\u201d Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. \u201cHe has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.\u201d She added, \u201cThat man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7dee2ea0cc4460c89ffdde3fb2d40a07 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">21 Then Ruth the Moabite said, \u201cHe even said to me, \u2018Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8506bfe0ff98d43afb89e38db9f50aeb wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, \u201cIt will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else\u2019s field you might be harmed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0035cb25729f23f2e7822631ce4b8069 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\">23 So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. 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