Ruth 1 is the first chapter of the book of ruth in the hebrew bible or the old testament of the. And ruth said, entreat me not to leave and return from following after thee, for i desire to become a proselyte. The new world translation of the holy scriptures is published by jehovahs witnesses. Ruth 1 niv read the new international version online. And a certain man of bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of. Its main character is a moabite woman named ruth, the daughterinlaw of a jewish widow named naomi.
The book tells of ruth accepting the god of the israelites as her god and the israelite people as her own. And ruth said, intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee. Ruth 1 in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. In the following story, there are sixteen books of the bible hidden. So a man from bethlehem in judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of moab. Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. It was a lulu, kept people looking so hard for facts. And a certain man of bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. Ruth and the lineage of king david in the last lines of the book 4. But ruth replied, dont urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Her heart would not be wrenched away from her motherinlaw. But ruth said, do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go i will go, and where you lodge i will lodge. In this verse naomi has told ruth to return to her people in moab as she is going back to jerusalem.
Boaz out of compassion and obedience to the law allows ruth to glean but also leaves extra grain for her purposely. This short book, only four chapters, shows how god uses unexpected people in amazing ways. Ruth 1 now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. The length of the journey, its dangers, and the inevitable fatigue accompanying it, moved not, by so much as a jot, her resolution. The chaldee paraphrase puts the passage in the following form. Your people shall be my people, and your god, my god 1. Your people will be my people, and your god will be my god. Ruth chapter 1 kjv king james version we can learn a lot from ruth, because any minute of the hour the normsoflife can occur in my or your life as it did with ruth, there is the drought economic failure having to relocate deaths older plus single all these and more can come upon me and you unexpectedly. The book of ruth is one of the most moving accounts in the bible, a story of love and loyalty that is a stark contrast to todays cynical, throwaway society. Ruth had no legal or cultural responsibility to naomi, who also was a widow and had no means of support. Ruth naomi widowed 1 in the days a when the judges ruled there was b a famine in the land, and a man of c bethlehem in judah went to sojourn in the country of moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
Analysis many people have heard this speech read at weddings at which a wife swears to follow her husband. She takes the easy way out, returns to her fathers house and goes off to. Now they arrived in bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest. I would requests indepth study of the entire book of ruth. It was a good number of years ago that i sat in on an excellent elective class taught by my friend, tom wright. Elimelech, the family head, took his wife, naomi, and their two sons and moved to the nearby country of moab to avoid the famine in judah. Today preschoolers will learn that god wants them to love their friends. Chapter 2 we see ruth gleaning in the fields of naomis relative boaz.
Ruth 1 naomi loses her husband and sons 1 in the days when the judges ruled, traditionally judged there was a famine in the land. May the lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me. The book of ruth is one of the bible s shortest books, telling its story in just four chapters. As we know from reading the rest of the book of ruth, god rewards ruth for her faithfulness and blesses her with a husband. Entreat me not to leave thee nothing in all the range of literature can surpass the beauty and tenderness of ruth s reply to naomi, contained in this and the following verse. Ruth s story is celebrated during the jewish festival of shavuot, the feast of weeks, 50 days after passover. The story is told in the book of ruth, part of the biblical canon called ketuvim, or writings. But the original context of this speech is quite different. Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee. I once made a remark about the hidden books of the bible.
Ruth 1, new american standard bible nasb the bible app. Ruth, biblical character, a woman who after being widowed remains with her husbands mother. Ruth 1 begins on a very tragic note as it recounts the story of one particular family from the tribe of judah and city of bethlehem. Your people shall be my people, and your god my god. Where you go i will go, and where you stay i will stay. Where you go i will go,i and where you stay i will stay. The following scripture is from the authorized king james version of the holy bible, now in the public domain. Its an intimate family tale of misfortune, crafty use of kinship ties, and ultimately, loyalty.
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