And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
The verse stands within the book of Ruth, a brief and beautiful pastoral account from the time of the judges. That account portrays simple home life in Israel. It shows God’s care for the promised Seed.
Its close brings out the ancestry of Jesus. Into that ancestry Ruth the Moabite woman was brought as His ancestor. The near kinsman in the book is a type of the Lord.
The verse stands within the book of Ruth, a brief and beautiful pastoral account from the time of the judges. That account portrays simple home life in Israel. It shows God’s care for the promised Seed.
Its close brings out the ancestry of Jesus. Into that ancestry Ruth the Moabite woman was brought as His ancestor. The near kinsman in the book is a type of the Lord.