Ruth

I finished reading the book of Ruth this morning.

• There was a shortage of food in Israel, so Elimelech left with his wife Naomi and 2 sons
• Then Elimelech died in the foreign land
• Naomi's 2 sons married in that land, then after they'd lived there 10 years, the sons died
• Naomi heard of food blessed in Israel again and decided to return there, but told her daughter-in-laws to go back to their parents
• Ruth refused and stayed with Naomi and went to Israel
• Naomi returned sad and told people to call her Mara because of her sadness
• Ruth goes out one day to gather grain behind harvesters and meets Boaz
• Boaz had women workers in his fields and Ruth followed them
• Boaz allowed her to gather grain behind his workers and share water and meal until harvest ends
• Naomi told Ruth to wash and perfume and to go the threshing floor where Boaz was working one evening; Ruth was to lay at his feet
• Boaz awoke and found her, she requested he care for her (as kinship redeemer)
• BOaz said there was a closer relative to her he must check with first for him to care for her and he sent Ruth home with barley in the wee dark morning
• Boaz gathered the close relative and town older leaders to witness property transfer
• The closer relative refused the land while it came with Ruth so Boaz bought it and took Ruth as his wife
• Ruth bore Boaz a son, Obed, who is in the line of David, who leads to Jesus