Ruth 4

Treated in 3 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 4:4 I thought I should tell you about it and say, 'Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and of the elders of my people.' If you are willing to redeem it, then do so. If you are not, tell me, so that I know. For no one has the right to redeem it except you, and I come next after you." "I will redeem it," he said. 1
  • 4:14 The women said to Naomi, "Praise the LORD, who has not left you this day without a family redeemer! May his name be renowned in Israel. 1
  • 4:17 The women who lived nearby gave him a name. "Naomi has a son!" they said, and they called him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, David's father. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. The Big Story · Ochorus Originals

    Everyone Did What Was Right in Their Own Eyes cites Ruth 4:17

    …book has been walking towards: Obed “became the father of Jesse, the father of David” (Ruth 4:17). This foreign widow became the great-grandmother of Israel’s greatest king. So while…

  2. Tell Me the Story – Book 2: Out of Egypt · Ochorus Originals

    Boaz the Redeemer cites Ruth 4:14

    “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a kinsman-redeemer.” — Ruth 4:14 All through the barley harvest and the wheat harvest, Ruth gleaned in Boaz’s fields. And…

  3. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Christ the Redeemer cites Ruth 4:4

    …is near in blood. In the old law the nearest kinsman was to redeem his brother’s land. Ruth 4:4. Thus Christ being near akin to us, ‘Flesh of our flesh.’ is the fittest to redeem us.…