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Boaz and Ruth
How Boaz and Ruth are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Boaz and Ruth were married.
Ruth gleaned in the field of Boaz, a kinsman of her dead husband's family. At the city gate he redeemed the family's land and took Ruth as his wife, and she bore a son.
So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife
Ruth 4:13, King James Version
a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech
Ruth 2:3, King James Version
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife
Ruth 4:10, King James Version
Where they cross: Ruth 4:9-13
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Ruth 2:3
3And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
Ruth 4:9-13
9And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, of the hand of Naomi.
10Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
11And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:
12And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman.
13So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bare a son.
King James Version