“Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, “We 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.  Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may […]

The story of Ruth is the perfect example of how to apply Godly principles to complicated problems ESPECIALLY when clearcut solutions to those problems are NOT spelled out for us in the Scriptures. Naomi and Ruth were both childless and poverty-stricken widows. This was a death sentence to females in that era. On top of […]

“Then Boaz said, ‘The same day you buy the field from Naomi, you must also buy Rut the woman from Moab, the wife of the deceased [son], in order to raise up in the name of the deceased an heir for his property.’  The redeemer said, ‘Then I can’t redeem it for myself, because I […]

So let’s get our bearings of where we’re at in the book of Ruth. When we last left off I mentioned there are only two possible scenarios concerning the current status of Naomi’s land inheritance and the bargaining session taking place between Boaz and the other redeemer. Scenario 1 is that an outside party (one […]

So now that we have a solid grasp of how the laws governing land inheritance in Israel worked, one thing should be pretty crystal clear at this point in our study of Ruth Chapter Four. Naomi did NOT legally possess the land that Boaz and the other redeemer were bargaining over. This point should be […]