Ruth 2:21-23

Then Ruth the Moabite said, "He even said to me, 'Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.' " Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else's field you might be harmed." So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

 

Then Ruth the Moabite

Ruth 1:22  So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.  

 

So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished 

Exodus 9:31-32  (The flax and barley were destroyed [by the plague of hail] since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom. The wheat and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.)

Exodus 34:22  "Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year." 

1 Samuel 6:13  Now the people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting their wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they rejoiced at the sight. [the Ark of the Covenant Law, the Ark of the LORD had been captured by the Philistines who were now returning it]

1 Samuel 12:16-17  "Now then, stand still and see this great thing the LORD is about to do before your eyes! Is it not the wheat harvest now? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain. And you will realize what a  evil thing you did in the eyes of the LORD when you asked for a king."

2 Samuel 14:30  Then he said to his servants, "Look, Joab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire." So Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

Ezekiel 4:9  "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side."

Joel 1:4, 10-11  What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left the other locusts have eaten. ... The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails. Despair you farmers, wail you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barely, because the harvest of the field is destroyed.

 

[brackets are mine]

 

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