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
Ruth stayed close to Boaz’s female servants and gathered grain until the barley and the wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
Exodus 9:31
The flax and the barley were destroyed because the barley was ripe and the flax was budding,
2 Samuel 21:9
and handed them over to the Gibeonites. They hanged them on the hill in the presence of the Lord; the seven of them died together. They were executed in the first days of the harvest at the beginning of the barley harvest.

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