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Who wa ruth?

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8y ago
Updated: 9/17/2019

Ruth was a Moabitess who left behind the paganism of her home nation to follow the God of Israel. She was married in Moab to the Israelite, Mahlon. When she became widowed, she showed faithfulness to her mother in law, Naomi, and insisted on returning to Israel, as recorded in her great declaration of faithfulness (Ruth 1:16-17): "And Ruth said, Do not entreat me to leave you, or to desist from following you. For where you go I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. The Lord so help me, if anything but death will part us." Later she married a relative of Naomi's, Boaz, and became the mother of Obed, grandmother of Jesse and great-grandmother of King David.

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Ruth is the main character from the book of Ruth, from the old testament of The Bible. She is a Moabite woman that marries one of Naomi's sons. Both of Naomi's sons later die and she sends her daughters-in-law back to their original families. Ruth however doesn't want to leave Naomi and goes back with her (Naomi) to Israel. Once there, Ruth goes to work gleaning the wheat fields and catches the eye of one of her former husband's kinsmen, Boaz. As it was customary for Hebrew kinsmen to marry their widowed in-laws Naomi and Ruth drop him a heavy hint. Boaz however isn't the most closely related to Ruth, there is someone more closely related who would be the more proper candidate. So Boaz has to go bargain with him to get to marry Ruth.

Ruth ends up being an ancestor to King David and Jesus Christ.

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