![]() ![]() Ruth’s testimony spread, and Boaz heard of her faith, as noted in Ruth 2:11-12:īut Boaz answered her, "All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before. Ruth and Naomi made the voyage back to Judah to the city of Bethlehem. Ruth could not endure to part from Naomi or from the God of Israel that she had come to know. ![]() Ruth adored her mother-in-law and had great sympathy for her, witnessing that she lost her husband and both of her sons. So Ruth had a choice whether to remain in her home of Moab or to go with Naomi, her mother-in-law, to Judah, a place she had never known. She married the son of an Israelite family while they were living in Moab, but then her father-in-law, husband, and husband’s only brother all passed away. Ruth was “of the women of Moab” but was related to Israel through Lot, the nephew of Abraham ( Ruth 1:4 Genesis 11:31). ![]()
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