Outline pgs 112-114
Ruth an Israelite Foreigner with a Great Destiny
-The story in the book of Ruth was in the time of Judges so it included this chapter
-The story sounds different from the tales of judges
-In the story of Ruth we find no battles
-The book of Ruth had it's begging's in Israel's oral period of early kings
-The story was told by storytellers and at festivals to teach the moral lessons and teachings of God within the stories
The Prayer of Israel: Tender, Deep Fidelity
-Ruth said to her mother-in-law, Naomi
-"Do not press me to leave or to turn back from following you!
Where you go, I will go;
Where you lodge, I will lodge:
You shall be my people,
And your God my God.
Where you die I will die there will I be buried
May the Lord do thus and so to me
And more as well,
If even death parts me from you!"
A Family Faces Calamity
-When famine strikes Israel during the period of Judges a man from Bethlehem journeys with his wife
-Naomi and her two sons try to start a new life on the plains of Moab
-After ten years the young men die
-And Naomi grief stricken
-Naomi starts out the two widows who accompany her for a distance
-Naomi tries to convince them not to convince not to thro in their lot with her because her life would be miserable back in Israel
Ruth
Naomi entreating Ruth and Orpah to return to the l...
Jan van Scorel, Ruth and Naomi in the fields of Bo...