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Elimelech and his wife Naomi left Bethlehem Judah when times were hard and moved to a new home in the uplands of Moab. In course of time he died, as also his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, who had married women of Moab Oprah and Ruth,and three widows were left mourning the loss of their husbands.
Naomi make plans to return home to Bethlehem.
Ruth 1: 6-22 (KJV)
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.
19.} So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, 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 Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
There Naomi had a rich realitive Boaz and little did she know what direction her life would take. Soon everything would change as Ruth went to glean in fields that were owned by Boaz.
Ruth meets Boaz
Ruth 2 : 1-23 (KJV)
1:)And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.
3} And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech."
4.} And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD [be] with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee.
5.} Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel [is] this?
6.} And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It [is] the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
7.} And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.
8.} Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:
9.} [Let] thine eyes [be] on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of [that] which the young men have drawn.
10.} Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I [am] a stranger?
11.} And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and [how] thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
12.} The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
13.} Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
14 :) And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
15:) And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:
16:) And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
17:) So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
18:) ¶ And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
19:) And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man’s name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.
20:) And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
21:) And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
22:) And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.
23:) So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
Read the book of Ruth (KJV)
Boaz and Ruth were eventually married. She became the mother of Obed, the grandfather of David. So Ruth is included in the maternal bloodline of our Lord.
The story of Ruth shows her unselfish desire to stand by her mother-in-law and to serve God. To prove herself trustworthy and because of this though not of the chosen race was privileged to become the ancestress of David, and through David Jesus was born.
Naomi and Ruth loved, honored and took care of each other. They were family they loved, honored and served God. Naomi thought her life was over but God restored her dignity with her kinsman and gave her a family.
Ruth was blessed with a loving husband, a son and a loving mother figure in Naomi. I hope that this would inspire us ordinary people to do something extraordinary today.
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Ruth and Naomi leaving Moab
Ruth Chapter 1
So she and her daughters-in-law got ready to go back from the country of Moab, for news had come to her in the country of Moab that the Lord, in mercy for his people, had given them food. And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law.
Ruth gleans in the fields of Boaz
Ruth Chapter 2
And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth,
of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz. And Ruth the
Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace.
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