Chapter 1
Naomi- Went to live in Moab with her husband (Elimelech) and her two sons (Mahlan and Kilion) during a famine.
*An Ephrathite from Bethlehem, Judah
*Her husband died
* Her sons married Orpah and Ruth
-They were both Moabite women
*Her sons died
*Heard God came to aid of Judah and prepared with her daughters-in-law to return home
*She releases her daughters-in-law back to their mother's homes and blesses them
-They wept and said they'd go with her
*Orpah kissed Naomi good bye, but Ruth clung to her
*Ruth was determined to go with Naomi
*Naomi told her people to call her Mara (bitter)
Chapter 2
Ruth asked Naomi if she could go be the first to pick leftover barley so the men wouldn't bother her
-Ruth works steadily from morning behind the harvesters with only a short rest
-Boaz told her to go among the servant girls and he told the men not to touch her
-invited to a meal with Boaz
-she gleaned until evening
Ruth lived with Naomi and worked with the servant girls
Chapter 3
Naomi told Ruth to wash and perfume herself and lay at Boaz's feet with out him noticing
*Ruth obeyed
-Everyone knew Ruth was a woman of noble character
Chapter 4
Ruth became Boaz's wife
-She gave birth to a son (Obed-father of Jesse the father of David)
Basically Ruth was pretty selfless to turn down an opportunity to go back home and start a new life. She stayed with her mother-in-law, moved to a foreign land, and tried her best to provide for the two of them even putting herself in potential harms way. Her mother-in-law instructs her in how to win over Boaz in marriage, she obeys, marries and becomes a super great grandmother of none other but Jesus.
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