Vocabulary
Demonstrating faithfulness and devotion to someone or something, regardless of circumstances.
Loyalty
Planting seeds.
Sowing
The country where Ruth is from.
Moab
Fill in the bank: Boaz was a wealthy relative of Naomi's _________.
Husband.
True or false: In Bible times, women who were widows and have no children could easily find jobs, make money, and support themselves without anyone else's help.
False (widows often had to rely on family and friends for help).
Male relative who is willing to marry and care for a widow of one of his family members.
Kinsman-redeemer.
Gathering crops and storing them.
Harvesting
Ruth was demonstrating this quality when she stayed devoted to Naomi and put her faith in Naomi's God (the God of Israel). Hint: it's a vocabulary word.
Loyalty
True or false: Boaz was a man of great character by showing kindness, faithfulness, and graciousness towards Ruth and Naomi.
True.
God gave a law through Moses that required Israelite farmers to leave behind whatever fell from the harvest, so that these people would be able to glean them for food.
The fatherless (orphans), widows, and foreigners.
The son of Boaz and Ruth, who became grandfather to King David.
Obed
Gathering up left-over grain at harvest time.
Gleaning
True or false: Ruth demonstrated a servant's heart when she faithfully gleaned in the fields every day. She was also genuine and sincere in her relationship with others.
True.
Boaz showed kindness to Ruth in these ways when she was gleaning from his field (name just one).
Giving Ruth food and water; telling other men not to touch Ruth; making Ruth's job easier by leaving out grain for her; telling her to not go to another field;
God had a plan all along to provide for Ruth and Naomi, and an even bigger plan by using the marriage of Ruth and Boaz to lead to a son and later King David. This showed God's __________. (Vocabulary word)
Providence.
God's divine guidance, care, or provision.
Providence
The process of beating the grain heads to remove the seeds from the stalks.
Threshing
Naomi told Ruth to communicate this to Boaz by going to the threshing floor and uncovering Boaz's feet in the middle of the night. Ruth boldly obeyed.
Asking Boaz to marry Ruth.
Boaz had to go talk to this person before he could marry Ruth. Boaz could only marry Ruth if this person did not perform his duty.
A closer relative/another kinsman-redeemer
Besides marrying the widow of a dead relative, a kinsman-redeemer also had the right to do this.
Buying back land that a relative has sold
Another English translation for "kinsman-redeemer."
Guardian redeemer, family redeemer, or close relative.
The process of separating the grain from the chaff (the thin husks that are blown off).
Winnowing
Ruth was mentioned again in the New Testament in this book in the genealogy of Jesus.
Matthew
Boaz being a kinsman-redeemer to Ruth served as a picture of this Person, who is the kinsman-redeemer of all people.
Jesus
Boaz was a descendent of this woman, who (like Ruth), was not an Israelite, but trusted in the God of Israel and later married an Israelite man.
Rahab (The woman who hid the Israelite spies in Jericho).