The verse closes the book of Ruth with the genealogy that Obed begat Jesse and Jesse begat David, recording Obed as Jesse's father and Jesse as David's father. It is an abbreviated ancestry of David and the close of the domestic annals of Ruth, with David's ancestry being one object of the book. The line from Obed through Jesse to David closes the account of Ruth and shows the family preserved.
Obed was Ruth's son and the grandfather of David, so that David was Ruth's great-grandson through Obed and Jesse. This makes Ruth the Moabite woman an ancestress of David and brings her into the royal line from which the Messiah came. Moabite blood thus ran in Israel's royal line.
The genealogy provides a historical link between the period of the Judges and the account of Samuel and David. It belongs to David's Bible, carrying the family line to David himself.
The lineage connects with Bethlehem, where Ruth's faithful love left a record for later generations and where David was born. David as Ruth's great-grandson, the believing Moabitish woman's descendant, was later anointed king in Bethlehem by Samuel in place of Saul.
The actors in Ruth belong to the family line from which Jesus Himself came. Ruth the Moabitess maiden became one of the progenitors of Jesus Christ according to the flesh and an ancestor of Christ after the flesh through Obed and Jesse to David, bringing Ruth into the royal line from which the Messiah came. The line is legitimate and runs through Obed and David to Christ, and the book is a literally true love story full of type and promise for the future.
The verse shows God's care for the Seed and divine foreknowledge, love, and care converging on David himself and beyond him on David's Son and David's Lord, worked out through sweet, simple home life among the children of Israel. Ruth's place in the lineage was the Lord's reward for her fidelity, faithfulness, and virtue.
Ruth's place in David's ancestry points to Christ's kinship with Gentiles and aliens. It means God built up Israel by adding to them from among the heathen, and it proves that gathering the Gentiles to Israel is God's work from the beginning and not a new thing in the gospel.
The genealogy points forward to the Redeemer foreshadowed by the near kinsman in the chapter, who has the right to redeem and is a type of Christ. For the Son of God likewise became our near kinsman to redeem us.
The family was preserved when Boaz acted as go'el to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, under which the first son born of such a marriage was counted as the son of the deceased man and inherited his land while all later sons belonged to the go'el himself. So if only one son was born the go'el was reckoned childless without an heir to preserve his own name and family. That risk is why the nearer kinsman refused lest he mar his own inheritance, and sons born of such unions were reckoned legitimate.
The verse closes the book of Ruth with the genealogy that Obed begat Jesse and Jesse begat David, recording Obed as Jesse's father and Jesse as David's father. It is an abbreviated ancestry of David and the close of the domestic annals of Ruth, with David's ancestry being one object of the book. The line from Obed through Jesse to David closes the account of Ruth and shows the family preserved.
Obed was Ruth's son and the grandfather of David, so that David was Ruth's great-grandson through Obed and Jesse. This makes Ruth the Moabite woman an ancestress of David and brings her into the royal line from which the Messiah came. Moabite blood thus ran in Israel's royal line.
The genealogy provides a historical link between the period of the Judges and the account of Samuel and David. It belongs to David's Bible, carrying the family line to David himself.
The lineage connects with Bethlehem, where Ruth's faithful love left a record for later generations and where David was born. David as Ruth's great-grandson, the believing Moabitish woman's descendant, was later anointed king in Bethlehem by Samuel in place of Saul.
The actors in Ruth belong to the family line from which Jesus Himself came. Ruth the Moabitess maiden became one of the progenitors of Jesus Christ according to the flesh and an ancestor of Christ after the flesh through Obed and Jesse to David, bringing Ruth into the royal line from which the Messiah came. The line is legitimate and runs through Obed and David to Christ, and the book is a literally true love story full of type and promise for the future.
The verse shows God's care for the Seed and divine foreknowledge, love, and care converging on David himself and beyond him on David's Son and David's Lord, worked out through sweet, simple home life among the children of Israel. Ruth's place in the lineage was the Lord's reward for her fidelity, faithfulness, and virtue.
Ruth's place in David's ancestry points to Christ's kinship with Gentiles and aliens. It means God built up Israel by adding to them from among the heathen, and it proves that gathering the Gentiles to Israel is God's work from the beginning and not a new thing in the gospel.
The genealogy points forward to the Redeemer foreshadowed by the near kinsman in the chapter, who has the right to redeem and is a type of Christ. For the Son of God likewise became our near kinsman to redeem us.
The family was preserved when Boaz acted as go'el to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, under which the first son born of such a marriage was counted as the son of the deceased man and inherited his land while all later sons belonged to the go'el himself. So if only one son was born the go'el was reckoned childless without an heir to preserve his own name and family. That risk is why the nearer kinsman refused lest he mar his own inheritance, and sons born of such unions were reckoned legitimate.