People of the World where are you going? Turn back to God! Back to your faithful principles!
KINDNESS TO THE STRANGER
Kindness To The Stranger. At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here and eat some bread and dip your bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers; and he served her roasted grain, and she ate until she was satisfied and she had some left [for Naomi].
GLEANING AFTER THE REAPERS
Ruth Meets Boaz. Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen carefully, my daughter. Do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but stay here close by my maids.
RUTH’S LOVE’S STEADFAST CHOICE
Ruth’s Love’s Steadfast Choice. But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people, and your God, my God.
RUTH’S LOYALTY TO NAOMI
Ruth’s Loyalty to Naomi. Then they wept aloud again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law [goodbye], but Ruth clung to her.
THE BIBLE BOOK OF RUTH
The Origin of the House of David
WIVES PROVIDED FOR THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN
Wives Provided for the Tribe of Benjamin. So they instructed the sons of Benjamin, saying, “Go, set an ambush in the vineyards, and watch; if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then you shall come out of the vineyards and each of you shall catch his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of [the tribe of] Benjamin.
ISRAEL’S WAR WITH THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN
Israel’s War with the Tribe of Benjamin. The men of Israel turned back against [the tribe of] the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city [of Gibeah] and the livestock and all that they found. They also set on fire all the [surrounding] towns which they found.
A LEVITE AND HIS CONCUBINE
A Levite and His Concubine. Now it happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that a certain Levite living [as an alien] in the most remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.
DANITES TAKE THE LEVITE AND THE IDOL
Danites Take the Levite and the Idol. They took the [idolatrous] things that Micah had made, and his priest, and they came to Laish, to a people who were quiet and secure; and they struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.
MICAH AND THE LEVITE
Micah and the Levite. And Micah said to him, “Live here with me and be a father and a [personal] priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver each year, a supply of clothing, and your sustenance (room and board).” So the Levite went in. The Levite agreed to live with the man, and the young man became to Micah like one of his sons.