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When have you deliberately done something that observers could take the wrong way? Why did you proceed in spite of the possible negative interpretations?  Since the return from Moab, Naomi has appeared to be a passive participant in events. Now she shows that she can formulate a shrewd plan to

The law of Moses decreed that when grain and vineyards were harvested, part of the produce should be left for the poor and foreigners to gather for themselves (Leviticus 19:9-10; 23:22; Deuteronomy 24:19-22). Ruth knows of this law, and now she proposes to take advantage of the opportunity to

“The days when the judges ruled” (Ruth 1:1) were the approximately three centuries between Israel’s entrance into Canaan and the anointing of their first king. Judges 17:6 sums up the period: “In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit” or “every man did that which was right

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Paul, unusually for a Jew, was a seasoned sea traveler. He would have been under no illusions about what might await him on the long voyage to get to Rome from one of its farthest outposts. He had lived much of the last few years in that in-between stage, knowing that the sea was still