Ruth 3:2 (BSB)
Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
Commentary on Ruth 3:2
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Ruth 3:1-5: Here is, I. Naomi's care for her daughter's comfort is without doubt very commendable, and is recorded for imitation. She had no thoughts of marrying herself, Rut 1:12. But, though she that was old had resolved upon a perpetual widowhood, yet she was far from the thoughts of confining her daughter-in-law to it, that was young. Age must not make itself a standard to youth.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Ruth 3:2: And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast?.... He was, and her question supposes and concludes it, and which she observes, that Ruth might take notice of it, and encouragement from it; and the rather, since she had been admitted into the company and conversation of his maidens; and which was more, though not mentioned, into the company and conversation...
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Ruth 3:2: He winnoweth barley tonight - It is very likely that the winnowing of grain was effected by taking up, in a broad thin vessel or sieve, a portion of the corn, and letting it down slowly in the wind; thus the grain would, by its own weight, fall in one place, while the chaff, etc., would be carried to a distance by the wind.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Ruth 3:1-2: Rth 3:1-2 As Naomi conjectured, from the favour which Boaz had shown to Ruth, that he might not be disinclined to marry her as goël, she said to her daughter-in-law, “My daughter, I must seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee.” In the question אבקּשׁ הלא, the word הלא is here, as usual, an expression of general admission or of undoubted...