OLD TESTAMENT RUTH

STORY OF RUTH

The story of Ruth is in the Old Testament book that bears her name

Naomi, her husband, their two sons, of Bethlehem, left there because

of a famine went to Moab, a neighboring country where there was food

to be had.

Naomi husband died while they were there and the two sons married

Moab women, one being Ruth. Within 10 years both of Naom's

sons had died.

Naomi and her daughters in law heard that there now was food in

Bethlehem and decided to return to home. Naomi urged Ruth to

stay in her own country, but she committed to go, telling her mother in

law “ Do not urge me to leave you, where you go, I will go,. Your

people are my people, your God my God, where you die I die and be

buried.”

So they came to Bethlehem which the whole town became stirred

because of them and the Bethlehem women, asked “is this Naomi”

and she said to them “Do not call me Naomi, I am Mara, since the

Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me”.

As they arrived at Bethlehem it was barley harvest time and Naomi

has a worthy relative of her husband, Boaz, of the Elimelech clan .

She chose to be negative and was bitter, and said God had brought

calamity to her life.

However, Naomi had a hometown to come back to which had people

who knew her, there was food, She had her husbands relatives still

alive. There was the possibility that Ruth could marry.

Abstract: From USA Network, Wisconsin, “Share This Story” by

Pastor Cory Dahl of First Baptist Church of Sturgeon Bay