Daily Scripture
1Jo. 4:18
1Jo 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1Jo 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Snippets
Ruth is the name of a book of the Old Testament and a faithful woman. Ruth means friendship.
- Ruth was a Moabite woman, the mother of Obed, and the wife of Boaz. Elimelech and Naomi are Hebrews, but they relocated to Moab with their two sons to escape the famine in Israel. Ruth married one of their sons, Mahlon and Orpah married the other son named Chillion. After a while, Elimelech and his sons died, leaving Naomi, Ruth, and Orpah widows. Naomi decided to return to Israel because the Lord lifted the famine. She told her daughters-in-law to return to their family in Moab. Orpah remained in Moab with her family, but Ruth decided to go to Israel with Naomi. In Israel, Ruth began to glean in the fields of Boaz. Because Ruth married into a Hebrew family, she had the rights of a kinswoman. There was a kinsman closer than Boaz, but he waived the right to marry Ruth, making it possible for Boaz to marry her. They married, and Obed was born from that union, thereby making Ruth a part of the lineage of Jesus. Ruth was a tenth-generation Moabite; therefore, she qualified to enter into the congregation of the Lord.
- Ruth is the eighth book of the Old Testament, and it records the life of a Moabite woman who became one of the ancestors of Jesus.