Boaz got down to business the next morning after Ruth showed him, she and Naomi needed his intervention in buying a piece of land rightfully by inheritance. Boaz knew the rights to buying the land belonged to another man. Boaz went to the city gate where official business was carried out. The man next in […]
Naomi protected her daughter-in-law, Ruth. Naomi encouraged Ruth to continue to gather stalks of grain from the fields of Boaz, a close kinsman to Naomi’s deceased husband. Naomi gave her instructions regarding Boaz. One day at the end of harvest, a feast would be held at the threshing floor. Ruth was to wait until Boaz […]
Naomi and Ruth settled into living in Bethlehem. Naomi’s husband had a wealthy relative named Boaz. Ruth was wanting to help support and bring in food for her and Naomi, her mother-in-law. Ruth asked permission to glean grain during the harvest. Ruth 2:1-2 Ruth did not know anyone’s field, she picked one which seemed good […]
In the days of the judges in Israel, there were no kings at that time, a story from that far off time is one of tenaciousness and clinging to God. There was a famine in Israel. A man, Elimalech, took his family to Moab, enemy territory. Naomi was his wife. They had two sons. While […]
In the midst of harsh living conditions in Israel, in the days of the judges, a love story is told. An Israelite man, Boaz, who clearly followed God and did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, found a woman from Moab (one who came to follow God who was from a pagan […]