Ruth 3

Ruth 3:1

And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.

It was a rare and unusual thing for the Lord to reveal his will by visions, to any man, in those days; and if privately he did thus speak unto some one, yet the public use of prophecy was a long time laid down:

Ruth 3:7

Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD.

Samuel was not yet acquainted with the voice of the Lord.

Ruth 3:9

Spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.

Take thou me into thy protection, as my husband; for thou art the man, who, by the Law of God, as being one of the nearest kinsmen to my husband, hast right, both to redeem his inheritance, and to marry me his widow.