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The spiritual condition of God’s chosen people during the period of the Judges is summarized by the final verse of the book. “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”—Judges 21:25. Israel’s repetitive cycles of sin, slavery and submission to the gentile peoples in and around the promised land, repentant submission to God, and finally salvation by...

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law. Verse 23 concludes chapter 2 with Ruth’s action and the purpose of her gleaning: So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end. The end came in two stages: first, the barley harvest, which began with the Feast of the First-Fruits around the end of March or the beginning of April and ended with the Feast of Weeks,
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