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Ruth 1. Naomi Becomes a Widow. ( 1 Timothy 5:3–16) 1 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab. 2 The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion.
The Book of Ruth is named for the Moabite woman who commits herself to the Israelite people by an oath to her mother-in-law Naomi and becomes the great-grandmother of David by marriage to Boaz of Bethlehem.
The book, written in Hebrew during the Persian period (c. 550-330 BCE), tells of the Moabite woman Ruth, who accepts Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, as her God and accepts the Israelite people as her own.
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Ruth 1. New International Version. Naomi Loses Her Husband and Sons. 1 In the days when the judges ruled,[ a] there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. 2 The man’s name was Elimelek, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his ...
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Ruth is a woman of Moab, of a race that is rejected by Deuteronomy ; she becomes a daughter of Israel and through the kind arrangement of God takes her place in the genealogy of King David. What a beautiful subject, and what a fine lesson!
