And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
The verse records that Amminadab begat Nahshon and Nahshon begat Salmon, as part of the closing genealogy in Ruth that gives an abbreviated ancestry of David and links the story of Ruth with the history that follows in Samuel. That genealogy belongs to the line through which Ruth, a Moabitess, became one of the ancestors of Jesus in His human descent. It places Amminadab, Nahshon, and Salmon in David's ancestry, connecting Ruth and Boaz to David and to the lineage of Israel's kings given through Ruth at Bethlehem. Ruth, the believing Moabite maiden, came to Bethlehem to leave a record of filial love and to give posterity this lineage, which leads to David.
In this lineage David was Ruth's great-grandson; he was born at Bethlehem, where Samuel the prophet came to anoint him king of Israel in place of Saul. Through this genealogy Ruth became an ancestress of the royal house, so that Moabite blood ran in David's line. The closing ancestry of the Lord Jesus in Ruth thus brings a Moabite woman into that ancestry. The same genealogy makes the actors in the book part of the family line from which Jesus Christ Himself came in His human descent as Lord and Messiah.
The verse belongs to the record of how the Lord rewarded Ruth's fidelity, faithfulness, virtue, and filial love in coming to Bethlehem and living faithfully there, by bringing her into the royal line continued through her son Obed, the grandfather of David. That royal line is the line from which the Messiah came. Ruth the Moabitess was thus incorporated into Israel and became an ancestor of Christ, illustrating God's practice of gathering people from among the Gentiles into Israel.
As domestic annals that belonged to David's Bible, the passage tells a tale of divine foreknowledge, love, and care converging on David himself and beyond him on David's Son and David's Lord. It is a wonderful love story that is literally true and full of type and promise for the future. The genealogy also shows that the sons born to Tamar by Judah under the duty of the nearest kinsman were reckoned as legitimate, and that one of them stands in the ancestry of Christ. Tamar merely used strategy to secure the rights guaranteed her by law and custom of which Judah had fraudulently deprived her, so her actions were not as reprehensible as they would have been under other circumstances.
The verse records that Amminadab begat Nahshon and Nahshon begat Salmon, as part of the closing genealogy in Ruth that gives an abbreviated ancestry of David and links the story of Ruth with the history that follows in Samuel. That genealogy belongs to the line through which Ruth, a Moabitess, became one of the ancestors of Jesus in His human descent. It places Amminadab, Nahshon, and Salmon in David's ancestry, connecting Ruth and Boaz to David and to the lineage of Israel's kings given through Ruth at Bethlehem. Ruth, the believing Moabite maiden, came to Bethlehem to leave a record of filial love and to give posterity this lineage, which leads to David.
In this lineage David was Ruth's great-grandson; he was born at Bethlehem, where Samuel the prophet came to anoint him king of Israel in place of Saul. Through this genealogy Ruth became an ancestress of the royal house, so that Moabite blood ran in David's line. The closing ancestry of the Lord Jesus in Ruth thus brings a Moabite woman into that ancestry. The same genealogy makes the actors in the book part of the family line from which Jesus Christ Himself came in His human descent as Lord and Messiah.
The verse belongs to the record of how the Lord rewarded Ruth's fidelity, faithfulness, virtue, and filial love in coming to Bethlehem and living faithfully there, by bringing her into the royal line continued through her son Obed, the grandfather of David. That royal line is the line from which the Messiah came. Ruth the Moabitess was thus incorporated into Israel and became an ancestor of Christ, illustrating God's practice of gathering people from among the Gentiles into Israel.
As domestic annals that belonged to David's Bible, the passage tells a tale of divine foreknowledge, love, and care converging on David himself and beyond him on David's Son and David's Lord. It is a wonderful love story that is literally true and full of type and promise for the future. The genealogy also shows that the sons born to Tamar by Judah under the duty of the nearest kinsman were reckoned as legitimate, and that one of them stands in the ancestry of Christ. Tamar merely used strategy to secure the rights guaranteed her by law and custom of which Judah had fraudulently deprived her, so her actions were not as reprehensible as they would have been under other circumstances.