Moab's history is intertwined with Israel's, as seen in the account of Ruth, a Moabite woman. The Moabites were descendants of Lot, Abraham's nephew, which adds a familial complexity to their relationship with Israel. This verse prophesies a future moment of reckoning for Moab, indicating a...
Ruth 2:6-8 Common English Bible 6The young man who was overseeing the harvesters answered, “She’s a young Moabite woman, the one who returned with Naomi from the territory of Moab.7She said, ‘Please let me glean so that I might gather up grain from among the bundles behind the ha...
3-5Elimelech died and Naomi was left, she and her two sons. The sons took Moabite wives; the name of the first was Orpah, the second Ruth. They lived there in Moab for the next ten years. But then the two brothers, Mahlon and Kilion, died. Now the woman was left without either ...
And David did wed a Vivian of the Warby tribe of Wakefield. And Vivian begat 2 children and there was great rejoicing and imbibing of pints of Tetleys in one gulp followed by a chaser of the Southern Comfort and on each occasion crieth the midwives “It is a child of the male variety...
6The young man answered, “She’s a young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab. 路得记 2:6 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) 6The servant answered, “She is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab. ...
Would you drop the scarlet cord with Rahab and visit the woman at the well knowing Christ came specifically for you? Might you be ready to travel the terrain under Ruth’s feet to see how God used Naomi to bring the Moabite outsider to her Kinsman-Redeemer? Will you consider walking, lea...
5 Boaz asked the young man in charge of his reapers, “Who is this young woman?” 6 The young man answered, “She’s a young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab. 7 She said, ‘Please let me gather grain. I will only gather among the bundles behind ...
Now there was a wealthy and influential man in Bethlehem named Boaz, who was a relative of Naomi’s husband, Elimelech. 2 One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go out into the harvest fields to pick up the stalks of grain left behind by anyone who is kind enough to le...
“Reed” is a better translation of the Hebrew סוּף (suf), traditionally rendered “red.” The name “Red Sea” is based on the LXX which referred to it as ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης (eruthras thalassēs,“red sea”). Nevertheless, because the body of water...
There was a relative of Naomi’s husband, a man of great wealth, of the family of Elimelech. His name was Boaz. So Ruth the Moabitess said to...