The verse belongs to the closing genealogy of Ruth, an abbreviated ancestry of David that links Ruth's story and family line to David and to the kings of Israel. It is the link that brings a Moabite woman into the ancestry of the Lord Jesus. It names Hezron begetting Ram and Ram begetting Amminadab as legitimate links in the ancestry of Christ coming through Perez, proving that the sons born when Tamar resorted to strategy to secure from Judah the rights of a Go'el of which she had been fraudulently deprived were reckoned legitimate and not cut off, since her action under the law and custom of the Go'el was not so reprehensible as it would have been otherwise. The genealogy stands in the domestic annals of Ruth showing God's care for the Seed, with divine foreknowledge, love, and care converging on David and more fully on David's Son and David's Lord.
Through this line Ruth the Moabitess, a believing Moabite woman, became one of the progenitors of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh, part of the family from which the Lord Himself sprang. Thus the royal house of David had Moabite ancestry, with Ruth's son Obed becoming the grandfather of David, making David her great-grandson, whom Samuel later anointed king in place of Saul. Standing at the close after Ruth and Naomi arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest in the spring, the verse shows the Lord rewarding Ruth's fidelity, faithfulness, virtue, and filial love in Bethlehem by bringing her into the royal line from which the Messiah came.
Ruth's place means God built up Israel all along by adding to them from among the heathen, with Ruth as one example alongside Rahab the harlot, which is God's same unchanging work from the beginning to the close of the gospel, and it points to Christ's kinship with Gentiles and aliens. The book is a literally true love story giving the sweet, simple home life among the children of Israel, full of type and promise for the future, with the lesson of the near kinsman as a type of the Lord.
The verse belongs to the closing genealogy of Ruth, an abbreviated ancestry of David that links Ruth's story and family line to David and to the kings of Israel. It is the link that brings a Moabite woman into the ancestry of the Lord Jesus. It names Hezron begetting Ram and Ram begetting Amminadab as legitimate links in the ancestry of Christ coming through Perez, proving that the sons born when Tamar resorted to strategy to secure from Judah the rights of a Go'el of which she had been fraudulently deprived were reckoned legitimate and not cut off, since her action under the law and custom of the Go'el was not so reprehensible as it would have been otherwise. The genealogy stands in the domestic annals of Ruth showing God's care for the Seed, with divine foreknowledge, love, and care converging on David and more fully on David's Son and David's Lord.
Through this line Ruth the Moabitess, a believing Moabite woman, became one of the progenitors of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh, part of the family from which the Lord Himself sprang. Thus the royal house of David had Moabite ancestry, with Ruth's son Obed becoming the grandfather of David, making David her great-grandson, whom Samuel later anointed king in place of Saul. Standing at the close after Ruth and Naomi arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest in the spring, the verse shows the Lord rewarding Ruth's fidelity, faithfulness, virtue, and filial love in Bethlehem by bringing her into the royal line from which the Messiah came.
Ruth's place means God built up Israel all along by adding to them from among the heathen, with Ruth as one example alongside Rahab the harlot, which is God's same unchanging work from the beginning to the close of the gospel, and it points to Christ's kinship with Gentiles and aliens. The book is a literally true love story giving the sweet, simple home life among the children of Israel, full of type and promise for the future, with the lesson of the near kinsman as a type of the Lord.