A Moabite woman whose extraordinary loyalty to her mother-in-law Naomi brought her into the messianic line. After her husband died, Ruth refused to return to her own people, declaring to Naomi: ‘Where you go I will go; your God will be my God.’ In Bethlehem, she gleaned in the fields of Boaz, a kinsman-redeemer who married her. Ruth became the great-grandmother of King David, and she is one of five women named in Jesus’ genealogy—a Gentile grafted into Israel’s story by faith.
But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.Ruth 1:16 · Berean Standard Bible
Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse,
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