Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
Ruth 4:18 begins the closing, abbreviated genealogy in which Pharez, also called Perez, fathered Hezron, starting the line that runs toward David and is continued in verses 18-22. Tracing that ancestry is one of the purposes of the book of Ruth, whose domestic annals formed part of David's Bible. The genealogy traces Ruth's family line to David's royal line, giving posterity a lineage of kings.
The line runs through Ruth the believing Moabitess to her son Obed, the grandfather of David, and on to her great-grandson David. That David was born in Bethlehem and was there anointed by Samuel the prophet to be king of Israel in place of Saul. Ruth and Naomi had arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest in the spring. The genealogy also traces the ancestry of the Lord Jesus, showing that Ruth became one of the progenitors of Jesus according to the flesh and that the actors in Ruth belong to the family from which Jesus Himself came.
By including a Moabite woman, the verse shows that Moabite ancestry entered David's royal line through Ruth, who was taken from among the heathen and added to Israel. Her place in Matthew's genealogy points to Christ's kinship with Gentiles and other outsiders. It proves that all along in the history of Israel God kept gathering Gentiles to Israel. The verse shows Ruth rewarded for her filial love, fidelity, faithfulness, and virtue by being brought into the royal line from which the Messiah came. It tells a tale of divine foreknowledge, love, and care converging on David himself and beyond him on David's Son and David's Lord. The story is literally true, a wonderful love story, and full of type and promise for the future.
In its setting the kinsman-redeemer foreshadows the Son of God, who became our near kinsman to redeem us. A son born through a kinsman-redeemer's marriage to a deceased man's widow was counted as the deceased man's son and inherited his land, while further sons belonged to the redeemer. This explains why the nearer kinsman feared fulfilling the duty could harm his own inheritance. It also explains why the sons born to Tamar and Judah were counted as legitimate with one included in the ancestry of the Lord.
Ruth 4:18 begins the closing, abbreviated genealogy in which Pharez, also called Perez, fathered Hezron, starting the line that runs toward David and is continued in verses 18-22. Tracing that ancestry is one of the purposes of the book of Ruth, whose domestic annals formed part of David's Bible. The genealogy traces Ruth's family line to David's royal line, giving posterity a lineage of kings.
The line runs through Ruth the believing Moabitess to her son Obed, the grandfather of David, and on to her great-grandson David. That David was born in Bethlehem and was there anointed by Samuel the prophet to be king of Israel in place of Saul. Ruth and Naomi had arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest in the spring. The genealogy also traces the ancestry of the Lord Jesus, showing that Ruth became one of the progenitors of Jesus according to the flesh and that the actors in Ruth belong to the family from which Jesus Himself came.
By including a Moabite woman, the verse shows that Moabite ancestry entered David's royal line through Ruth, who was taken from among the heathen and added to Israel. Her place in Matthew's genealogy points to Christ's kinship with Gentiles and other outsiders. It proves that all along in the history of Israel God kept gathering Gentiles to Israel. The verse shows Ruth rewarded for her filial love, fidelity, faithfulness, and virtue by being brought into the royal line from which the Messiah came. It tells a tale of divine foreknowledge, love, and care converging on David himself and beyond him on David's Son and David's Lord. The story is literally true, a wonderful love story, and full of type and promise for the future.
In its setting the kinsman-redeemer foreshadows the Son of God, who became our near kinsman to redeem us. A son born through a kinsman-redeemer's marriage to a deceased man's widow was counted as the deceased man's son and inherited his land, while further sons belonged to the redeemer. This explains why the nearer kinsman feared fulfilling the duty could harm his own inheritance. It also explains why the sons born to Tamar and Judah were counted as legitimate with one included in the ancestry of the Lord.