Characters & Episodes in Ruth
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Ruth 1
Naomi
The Bethlehemite mother-in-law of Ruth who went out to Moab full and returned home empty calling herself 'Mara' — until God used Ruth's loyalty and Boaz's redemption to place baby Obed in her arms.
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Ruth the Moabite
The widowed Moabite outsider who clung to Naomi declaring 'Your people shall be my people, and your God my God,' gleaned in the margins of Bethlehem's harvest field, was redeemed by Boaz, and became great-grandmother to King David in the line of Christ.
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Younger son of Elimelech and Naomi and husband of Orpah, who died in the land of Moab after ten years.
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Ephrathite of Bethlehem, husband of Naomi, and kinsman of Boaz who took his family to Moab during a famine in the days of the judges and died there — leaving the inheritance that Boaz later redeemed.
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Son of Elimelech and Naomi and first husband of Ruth in Moab — whose name and inheritance Boaz raised up by redeeming Ruth at the Bethlehem gate.
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Moabite widow of Chilion and sister-in-law of Ruth who wept on the road to Bethlehem and kissed Naomi goodbye, returning to her people and her gods while Ruth clung to Naomi.
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Boaz of Bethlehem
Son of Salmon and Rahab, worthy lord of the harvest in Bethlehem, and Kinsman-Redeemer (Goel) who spread his garment over Ruth the Moabite, paid the price at the city gate, and fathered Obed in the Messianic line.
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Naomi
The Bethlehemite mother-in-law of Ruth who went out to Moab full and returned home empty calling herself 'Mara' — until God used Ruth's loyalty and Boaz's redemption to place baby Obed in her arms.
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Ruth the Moabite
The widowed Moabite outsider who clung to Naomi declaring 'Your people shall be my people, and your God my God,' gleaned in the margins of Bethlehem's harvest field, was redeemed by Boaz, and became great-grandmother to King David in the line of Christ.
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Ephrathite of Bethlehem, husband of Naomi, and kinsman of Boaz who took his family to Moab during a famine in the days of the judges and died there — leaving the inheritance that Boaz later redeemed.
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Boaz of Bethlehem
Son of Salmon and Rahab, worthy lord of the harvest in Bethlehem, and Kinsman-Redeemer (Goel) who spread his garment over Ruth the Moabite, paid the price at the city gate, and fathered Obed in the Messianic line.
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Naomi
The Bethlehemite mother-in-law of Ruth who went out to Moab full and returned home empty calling herself 'Mara' — until God used Ruth's loyalty and Boaz's redemption to place baby Obed in her arms.
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Ruth the Moabite
The widowed Moabite outsider who clung to Naomi declaring 'Your people shall be my people, and your God my God,' gleaned in the margins of Bethlehem's harvest field, was redeemed by Boaz, and became great-grandmother to King David in the line of Christ.
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Boaz of Bethlehem
Son of Salmon and Rahab, worthy lord of the harvest in Bethlehem, and Kinsman-Redeemer (Goel) who spread his garment over Ruth the Moabite, paid the price at the city gate, and fathered Obed in the Messianic line.
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David
The shepherd boy who felled Goliath with a sling, hid with 400 outlaws in the Cave of Adullam, and became Israel's anointed warrior-king — "a man after God's own heart" whose line leads to Jesus.
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Naomi
The Bethlehemite mother-in-law of Ruth who went out to Moab full and returned home empty calling herself 'Mara' — until God used Ruth's loyalty and Boaz's redemption to place baby Obed in her arms.
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Ruth the Moabite
The widowed Moabite outsider who clung to Naomi declaring 'Your people shall be my people, and your God my God,' gleaned in the margins of Bethlehem's harvest field, was redeemed by Boaz, and became great-grandmother to King David in the line of Christ.
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Leader of the house of Judah on the eve of the Exodus — father of tribal prince Nahshon and father-in-law to High Priest Aaron.
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Younger son of Elimelech and Naomi and husband of Orpah, who died in the land of Moab after ten years.
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Ephrathite of Bethlehem, husband of Naomi, and kinsman of Boaz who took his family to Moab during a famine in the days of the judges and died there — leaving the inheritance that Boaz later redeemed.
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Son of Perez and grandson of Judah who entered Egypt with Jacob's family and carried the Messianic line forward through his son Ram.
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Grandson of Boaz and Ruth and father of eight sons in Bethlehem — whose youngest shepherd son David became king, and whose 'stump' Isaiah prophesied would sprout the Messianic Branch.
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Son of Elimelech and Naomi and first husband of Ruth in Moab — whose name and inheritance Boaz raised up by redeeming Ruth at the Bethlehem gate.
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Chief prince of the tribe of Judah during the Exodus who presented the very first dedication offering at the Tabernacle altar and fathered Salmon in the Messianic line.
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Son of Boaz and Ruth whose birth in Bethlehem restored Naomi's empty arms and made him grandfather to King David in the Messianic lineage.
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Son of Judah and Tamar whose birth 'broke forth' ahead of his twin Zerah, founding the Perezite clan that produced Boaz, King David, and Jesus.
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Son of Hezron and father of Amminadab in the royal genealogy linking Judah in Egypt to the Exodus generation.
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Prince of Judah in the conquest generation who married Rahab of Jericho and fathered Boaz of Bethlehem in the Messianic lineage.
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The first woman named in Matthew's Messianic genealogy — a wronged Canaanite widow whose bold pursuit of covenant justice preserved the royal line of Judah through her son Perez.
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