{"id":4678,"date":"2024-11-14T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=4678"},"modified":"2024-11-14T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:14:46","slug":"ruth-chapters-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/ruth-chapters-3-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Chapters 3 &amp; 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ruth-and-naomi.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This blog post is sponsored by Divine Desserts Publishing. Read one of <a href=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/books\/\">our novels<\/a> \u2013 sweet comforting soothing stories for parched souls. All books are Christian-themed and they are perfect for Bible study and church groups! Tell your friends by sharing this blog post! For those listening \u2013 the link is at the end of this blog post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For chapters 3 and 4 a few things come to mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruth made herself ready for Boaz, similar to what women do today, when they go out on a date. In modern times, when women are preparing for a date, they put on their best clothes, spray on some good smelling perfume\u2026they might even wear extra makeup. This just shows that times change, but people don\u2019t. When Ruth laid at Boaz\u2019s feet, the action is so sexy and humble! In Biblical times a woman would lie at a man\u2019s feet to seek protection. In Ruth\u2019s case, this protection included marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boaz wants Ruth to become his wife \u2013 but he must do what is legally proper for those times. He does the necessary legal act so that he can become Ruth\u2019s husband in a way that\u2019s pleasing to the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruth is blessed with a child! Naomi is thrilled for the addition to their family!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 3 One day Ruth\u2019s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, \u201cMy daughter, I must find a home for you, where you will be well provided for. 2 Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. 3 <strong>Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. <\/strong>Then go down to the threshing floor, but don\u2019t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. 4 When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 \u201cI will do whatever you say,\u201d Ruth answered. 6 So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 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. 8 In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned\u2014and there was a woman lying at his feet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 \u201cWho are you?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am your servant Ruth,\u201d she said. \u201cSpread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer of our family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 \u201cThe Lord bless you, my daughter,\u201d he replied. \u201cThis kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor. 11 And now, my daughter, don\u2019t be afraid. I will do for you all you ask. All the people of my town know that you are a woman of noble character. 12 Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family, there is another who is more closely related than I. 13 Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives I will do it. Lie here until morning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, \u201cNo one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 He also said, \u201cBring me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.\u201d When she did so, he poured into it six measures of barley and placed the bundle on her. Then he went back to town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, \u201cHow did it go, my daughter?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her 17 and added, \u201cHe gave me these six measures of barley, saying, \u2018Don\u2019t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 Then Naomi said, \u201cWait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boaz Marries Ruth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, \u201cCome over here, my friend, and sit down.\u201d So he went over and sat down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, \u201cSit here,\u201d and they did so. 3 Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, \u201cNaomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek. 4 I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will redeem it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Then Boaz said, \u201cOn the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man\u2019s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 At this, the guardian-redeemer said, \u201cThen I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, \u201cBuy it yourself.\u201d And he removed his sandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, \u201cToday you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon\u2019s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, \u201cWe are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. 12 Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naomi Gains a Son<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. 14 The women said to Naomi: \u201cPraise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! 15 He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. 17 The women living there said, \u201cNaomi has a son!\u201d And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Genealogy of David<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 This, then, is the family line of Perez:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perez was the father of Hezron,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 Hezron the father of Ram,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ram the father of Amminadab,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 Amminadab the father of Nahshon,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nahshon the father of Salmon,[d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 Salmon the father of Boaz,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boaz the father of Obed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 Obed the father of Jesse,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and Jesse the father of David.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This blog post is sponsored by Divine Desserts Publishing. Read one of <a href=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/books\/\">our novels<\/a> \u2013 sweet comforting soothing stories for parched souls. All books are Christian-themed and they are perfect for Bible study and church groups! Tell your friends by sharing this blog post! 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