Ruth 3:2 Cross References

Ruth 3:2

2: Boaz is a close relative of ours, and he's been very kind by letting you gather grain with his workers. Tonight he will be winnowing barley at the threshing floor.

Ruth 2:1

  1. Now there was a wealthy and influential man in Bethlehem named Boaz, who was a relative of Naomi's husband, Elimelech.

Ruth 2:8

  1. Boaz went over and said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Stay right here with us when you gather grain; don't go to any other fields. Stay right behind the women working in my field.

Ruth 2:20

  1. "May the LORD bless him!" Naomi told her daughter-in-law. "He is showing his kindness to us as well as to your dead husband. That man is one of our closest relatives, one of our family redeemers."
  2. Then Ruth said, "What's more, Boaz even told me to come back and stay with his harvesters until the entire harvest is completed."
  3. "This is wonderful!" Naomi exclaimed. "Do as he said. Stay with his workers right through the whole harvest. You will be safe there, unlike in other fields."
  4. So Ruth worked alongside the women in Boaz's fields and gathered grain with them until the end of the barley harvest. Then she worked with them through the wheat harvest, too. But all the while she lived with her mother-in-law.

Deuteronomy 25:5

  1. "If two brothers are living together on the same property and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Instead, her husband's brother must marry her and fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law.
  2. The first son she bears to him will be counted as the son of the dead brother, so that his name will not be forgotten in Israel.
  3. But if the dead man's brother refuses to marry the widow, she must go to the town gate and say to the leaders there, `My husband's brother refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel--he refuses to marry me.'
  4. The leaders of the town will then summon him and try to reason with him. If he still insists that he doesn't want to marry her,
  5. the widow must walk over to him in the presence of the leaders, pull his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then say, `This is what happens to a man who refuses to raise up a son for his brother.'

Hebrews 2:11

  1. So now Jesus and the ones he makes holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters.
  2. For he said to God, "I will declare the wonder of your name to my brothers and sisters. I will praise you among all your people."
  3. He also said, "I will put my trust in him." And in the same context he said, "Here I am--together with the children God has given me."
  4. Because God's children are human beings--made of flesh and blood--Jesus also became flesh and blood by being born in human form. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the Devil, who had the power of death.
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