Old Testament
Set in the dark days of the judges, Ruth tells how a famine empties an Israelite widow, Naomi, and how a loyal Moabite daughter-in-law refuses to leave her — 'your people will be my people, and your God my God.' Through no miracle but only God's hidden providence, Ruth comes to glean in the field of Boaz, a kinsman who becomes her redeemer, buying back the family's land and marrying her at cost to himself. Naomi's emptiness is reversed in a grandson, and the book closes by revealing its true scale: this quiet story of covenant kindness and redemption is the origin of the line of David — answering the kingless chaos of the judges and pointing toward the Redeemer-King to come.
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