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Ruth 1
Ruth 1,
2, 3,
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The book of Ruth date and author are quite uncertain. Tradition is in
favor of Samuel. It is probable that the books of Judges, Ruth, Samuel
and Kings originally formed but one work. The book of Ruth clearly forms
part of the books of Samuel, supplying as it does the essential
point of David's genealogy and early family history, and is no
less clearly connected with the book of Judges by its
opening verse and the epoch to which the whole book relates. Ruth was of
Abraham nephew Lot.
Ruth
1:1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there
was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to
sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
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Ruth was of Abraham nephew, Lot.
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Ruth (a female friend) a Moabitish woman, the
wife, first of Mahlon, second of Boaz, the
ancestress of David and Christ, and one of the
four women who are named by St. Matthew in the
genealogy of Christ.
2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and
the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and
Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country
of Moab, and continued there.
3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two
sons.
4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was
Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they
dwelled there about ten years.
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Moab was the son of the Lot's eldest daughter,
the progenitor of the Moabites
5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left
of her two sons and her husband.
6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from
the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that
the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two
daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the
land of Judah.
8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her
mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the
dead, and with me.
9 The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of
her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and
wept.
10 And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy
people.
11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are
there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an
husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also
to night, and should also bear sons;
13 Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them
from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for
your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her
mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
15 And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people,
and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from
following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou
lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my
God:
17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do
so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she
left speaking unto her.
19 So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass,
when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about
them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the
Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
21 I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why
then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and
the Almighty hath afflicted me?
22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with
her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem
in the beginning of barley harvest.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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