Quotes about Provision
Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”
- Ruth 2:9
At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
- Ruth 2:14
Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”
- Ruth 2:16
So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.
- Ruth 2:17
Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”
- Ruth 2:21
And he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he shoveled six measures of barley into her shawl. Then he went into the city.
- Ruth 3:15
And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
- Ruth 3:17
Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
- 1 Samuel 10:3
They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from their hands.
- 1 Samuel 10:4
One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
- 1 Samuel 17:17
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
- 1 Samuel 21:3
Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”
- 1 Samuel 25:11