Chapters 2-4
What does Ruth do in order to get some food? (2:3)
Who did the field belong to? (2:3)
What are the words spoken by this man to the reapers? (2:4)
How do the reapers respond? (2:4)
Does Boaz take note of Ruth? (2:5)
Does the servant of Boaz know Ruth? (2:6)
Is Ruth a hard worker? (2:7)
Does Boaz encourage, or admonish, Ruth in her gleaning? (2:8-9)
Whose field does he want her to stay in? (2:8)
What has Boaz told the young man to do? (2:9)
Why is Ruth amazed at his generosity? (2:10)
What does Boaz say is his motivation to help her? (2:11)
Boaz then makes a beautiful blessing to Ruth. What does he say? (2:12)
Where does Ruth eat her luncheon meal this day? (2:14)
Does she eat it all? Why or why not, do you think? (2:14)
What instructions are given to his foreman about Ruth? (2:16-16)
Do you get the feeling that Boaz likes Ruth?
What does Ruth do with the food she collects? (2:18)
Naomi is amazed at how much Ruth has gleaned. What does she ask Ruth? (2:19)
When she learns where Ruth has gleaned, Naomi praises God for leading Ruth to Boaz’s field. Only now does she let Ruth know that Boaz is a r elative of theirs. How do you think Ruth felt about this?
It seems that Ruth has found a new home. Doesn’t Ruth 2:23 sound like some stability is finally coming to this family?
Ruth 3 –
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What is the relationship between Naomi, Ruth, and Boaz? (3:2)
What will Boaz be doing that very night? (3:2)
What advice does Naomi give to Ruth? (3:3-4)
Does Ruth do these things? (3:5-6)
What happens at midnight? (3:8)
After they re-introduce themselves, what does Ruth ask Boaz to do? (3:9)
Why does Boaz bless her? (3:10)
What do all the townspeople know about Ruth? (3:11)
There seems to be a problem with Naomi’s and Ruth’s plan. What is it?
(3:12)
What will Boaz have to find out? (3:13)
How long does Ruth stay with Boaz this night? (3:14)
What does Boaz tell Ruth to take with her? (3:15)
What is left for Ruth to do now? (3:18)
Where does Boaz go? (4:1)
Who comes by? (4:1)
Who does Boaz ask to sit down with him, and talk? (4:1-2)
Boaz describes the situation. Naomi has sold the land her husband owned,
but she should have first offered it to the nearest kinsman. Boaz says the
situation should now be made right, and they can make it right by concluding
an agreement in front of the elders of the community. Boaz says this man,
the nearest kinsman, has the right to buy the land back, and all the
property associated with it. There is a special word used to describe this
“buying back.” What is it? (4:4b)
Hint: This is a salvation word, often associated with the work of Jesus
If this near kinsman does not want to make the agreement, who has the next
opportunity to do so? (4:4)
How does the near kinsman respond? (4:4)
Boaz now goes on to explain that with the property, the near kinsman will
also acquire Ruth as a wife. It was the Hebrew custom that the nearest
kinsman had the right to marry and take care of the widows in his family.
With this new knowledge, what does the near kinsman say? (4:6)
What ritual is enacted to show their agreement on the situation? This is
done in front of the ten witnesses. (4:7)
Who takes off his sandle? (4:8)
What does Boaz say to the elders? (4:9-10)
How do the elders respond? What is their blessing to Ruth? (4:11)
What should Boaz’ house be like? (4:12)
Things happen fast in the Bible. What happens in 4:13?
What do the women of the village say to Naomi? (4:14)
What is their hope for the relationship of the baby and Naomi? (4:15)
What do the woman say about Ruth, that she is better than? (4:15)
Who becomes the nurse to this baby? (4:16)
What is the baby’s name, and who names him? (4:17)
Who do they say the son is born to? (4:17)
Now, we come to the heart of the matter…perhaps the reason we have this book
at all!
Who is Obed the father of? (4:17)
Who is Obed the grandfather of? (4:17)
Whose genealogy are these people descended from? (4:19)
Read Matthew 1:1
Whose genealogy is being put forth?
Read Matthew 1:5
It tells us that Jesus comes from the line of Boaz and Ruth! Without Ruth,
the Moabitess, Jesus would not have been born of the family he was! What an
amazing thing! It is a foreigner, Ruth, that helps continue the line of the
Messiah!
And, even more….who does Matthew 1:5 say is the mother of Boaz?
No wonder they say that the story of Jesus Christ is the greatest story ever
told!