Teks -- Ruth 2:16 (NET)

2:16 Make sure you pull out ears of grain for her and drop them so she can gather them up. Don’t tell her not to!”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Rut 2:16 - let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her

The gleaners in the East glean with much success; for a great quantity of corn is scattered in the reaping, as well as in their manner of carrying it. One may judge, then, of the large quantity which Ruth would gather in consequence of the liberal orders given to the servants. These extraordinary marks of favor were not only given from a kindly disposition, but from regard to her good character and devoted attachment to her venerable relative.

Defender: Rut 2:16 - handfuls of purpose

The same Hebrew word, basically meaning "take a spoil," is used twice in this verse. Once it is translated "let fall" and once as "of purpose." The word for "handfuls," used only here in the Bible, evidently refers to a hand's grip. Boaz is saying in effect to his servants, "Grab from the bundles of sheaves as though you were taking a spoil for her, but then leave them as a spoil for her." Ruth was not to know that this was Boaz' gift to her, so she could assume she was gleaning it all on her own.

Defender: Rut 2:16 - she may glean them

Ruth, in gleaning the sheaves deliberately left by Boaz, becomes a type of the believer gleaning food for the soul in the fruitful field of Scripture. Our heavenly Redeemer has paid the price to take the spoil for us. As we kneel down to glean each morsel, we "rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil" (Psa 119:162)."

TSK: Rut 2:16

Deu 24:19-21; Psa 112:9; Pro 19:17; Mat 25:40; Rom 12:13; 2Co 8:5-11; Phm 1:7; Heb 6:10; 1Jo 3:17, 1Jo 3:18

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Gill: Rut 2:16 - And let fall some of the handfuls on purpose for her // and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not

And let fall some of the handfuls on purpose for her,.... That is, when they had reaped an handful, instead of laying it in its proper order, to be taken up by those that gathered after them, or by themselves, in order to be bound up in sheaves, scatter it about, or let it fall where they reaped it:

and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not for taking them, as if she did a wrong thing.