Ruth 2:8-10

So Boaz said to Ruth, "My daughter, listen to me. Don't go and glean in another field and don't go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me. Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the man have filled." At this she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, "Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me--a foreigner?"

 

At this she bowed down with her face to the ground

Genesis 19:1  The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 20:41a  After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times with his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 24:8  Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 25:23  When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.

Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me 

Ruth 2:19  Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!" Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. "The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz." she said.

Psalm 41:1  Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the LORD delivers them in times of trouble.

--a foreigner? 

Genesis 31:15  "Does he (Laban) not regard us (his daughters, Jacob's wives) as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us."

Exodus 22:21  "Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt."

Leviticus 24:22  " 'You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native born. I am the LORD  your God.' "

Deuteronomy 15:3  You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you. (debts among Israelites were to be canceled at the end of every seventh year) 

Deuteronomy 23:20  You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.

Psalm 146:9  The LORD watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

(parentheses are mine)

 

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