Ruth 1:1-4, Ruth 4:13-17, Matthew 1:5-6

Naomi’s Husband and Sons Die

1Now it happened in the days ^awhen the judges judged, that there was ^ba famine in the land. And a certain man ^cof Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the fields of Moab ¹with his wife and his two sons. ²The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they ^acame to the fields of Moab and remained there. ³Then Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons. ⁴They took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.

¹³So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in to her. And ^aYahweh granted her conception, and she gave birth to a son. ¹⁴Then the ^awomen said to Naomi, “Blessed is Yahweh who has not left you without a ¹kinsman redeemer today, and may his name ²be proclaimed in Israel. ¹⁵“May he also be to you a restorer of your soul and a sustainer of your ¹old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you ²^,^aand is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

The Generations of David

¹⁶Then Naomi took the child ¹and put him on her bosom and became his nurse. ¹⁷The neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi!” So they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

⁵And Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz was the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed was the father of Jesse. ⁶And Jesse was the father of David the king. And David ^awas the father of Solomon by ¹the wife of Uriah.