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.
In the beginning
Bible References
In the beginning
Ruth 2:23
So Ruth worked beside Boaz's female servants, gathering grain until the end of the barley harvest as well as the wheat harvest. After that she stayed home with her mother-in-law.
Exodus 9:31
(Now the flax and the barley were struck by the hail, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bud.
2 Samuel 21:9
He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them died together; they were put to death during harvest time -- during the first days of the beginning of the barley harvest.