Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat there. When the kinsman-redeemer he had mentioned came along, Boaz said, "Come over here, my friend, and sit down. "So he went over and sat down. Boaz took ten of the el…
When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, "How did it go, my daughter?" Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her and added, "He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, 'Don't go back to your moth…
“Stay here for the night and in the morning if he wants to redeem good; let him redeem. But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives I will do it. Lie here until morning." So she lay at his feet until morning, …
“The Lord bless you, my daughter," he replied. "This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor. And now, my daughter, don't be afraid. I will…
“When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly uncovered his feet and lay down. In the middle of the night someth…
“One day Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not try to find a home for you, where you will be well provided for? Is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been, a kinsman of ours? Tonight h…
Then Ruth the Moabitess said, "He even said to me, 'Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.' " Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with his girls,…
Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. "The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz," she said. "The Lord bless him!" Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. "He has not stopp…
"So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah. She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also b…
"May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord," she said. "You have given me comfort and have spoken kindly to your servant—though I do not have the standing of one of your servant girls." Ruth 2:13 Ruth received…
Boaz replied, “I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know befo…
“So Boaz said to Ruth, my daughter, listen to me. Don't go and glean in another field and don't go away from here. Stay here with my servant girls. Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the…
“The foreman replied, "She is the Moabitess who came back from Moab with Naomi. She said, 'Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.' She went into the field and has worked steadily from mo…
“And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Ruth 2:2 Chapter 2 of the Book of Ruth begins on a note of hope. “Now Naomi had a …
“So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.” Ruth 1:22 “I went away full but the Lord has brought me back empty.” Thos…
“Don’t call me Naomi, she told them. Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.” Ruth 1:20 The comments of people could have an effect on others beyond anyone’s imagination. The question that came…
“When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, Can this be Naomi?” Ruth 1: 19 “ So, the two women went on till they came to Bethlehem”. Ruth had made her declaratio…
“ Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God” Ruth 1: 16 These are the powerful words from the lips of …
“ Look, said Naomi, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.” Ruth 1: 15 Orpah made a tough decision to return home. One could imagine her tears as she turned back to return to the …
“At this they wept again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-by but Ruth clung to her.” Ruth 1: 14 In verse 9 we read of Naomi kissing her daughters-in-law good-by and weeping with them. The two young women were st…
“ Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. May the Lord show kindness to you, as you have shown to your dead and to me.” Ruth 1: 8 Naomi made the preparations to go back…
“ When she heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, Naomi and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. Ruth 1: 6 News travels fast even in an era without …
“Both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband” Ruth 1: 5 The two sons of Naomi married Moabite women. The young men did not have much choice but to marry foreigners. These wer…
Now Elimelech, Naomi’s husband died, and she was left with her two sons. They married Moabite women one named Orpah and the other Ruth.” Ruth 1:3 The name of Elimelech means God is King. I want to believe that this rel…
“ In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land and a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.” Ruth 1:1 The setting for the b…
“…They will not be convinced even if someone should rise from the dead”. Luke 16:31 The parable of the rich man and Lazarus has a ring to it that speaks to our day. The rich man who had known what it meant to mingle with…
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