Ruth Studies

RUTH 4 Read Ruth 4:1-12 We left Chapter 3 on a knife-edge. Boaz wanted to marry Ruth but was aware that there was someone more closely related to her than he was, and who had a prior claim. Without wasting any time Boaz went to see this man and they went before the town elders […]

RUTH 3 Read Ruth 3:1-18 In this chapter, we see the relationship between Boaz and Ruth developing. Naomi is conscious that she and Ruth are in a vulnerable position having no-one to provide for them or protect them, and so, having observed Boaz’s kindness towards them in the previous chapter, she seeks to do a […]

RUTH 2 Read Ruth 2:1-23 In Chapter 1 we met Naomi, an Israelite woman living in exile in Moab, and her daughter-in-law Ruth. Today we meet Boaz, one of the great examples of kindness and love in the Old Testament. Naomi and Ruth, both widows and with no close relatives, arrived in Bethlehem and had […]

RUTH 1 Introduction – We have spent some time looking at the Judges, leaders raised up by God to rule his people in the period following the strong leadership of Moses and Joshua. We have seen that they ruled with varying degrees of success and with varying degrees of commitment to the Lord. But we […]