Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

Bible References

In the beginning

Ruth 2:23
So she stayed close by the maids of Boaz in order to glean until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
Exodus 9:31
(Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.
2 Samuel 21:9
Then he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before the Lord, so that the seven of them fell together; and they were put to death in the first days of harvest at the beginning of barley harvest.