So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.
Key themes
HopeSalvationHesedProvidence
Glossary
- Boaz Person
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Alacrity. (1. ) The husband of Ruth, a wealthy Bethlehemite. By the “levirate law” the duty devolved on him of marrying Ruth the Moabitess ( Ruth 4:1-13 ). He was a kinsman of Mahlon, her first husband.
- Ruth Person
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A friend, a Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, whose father, Elimelech, had settled in the land of Moab.