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1. Naomi lived in Bethlehem with her husband Elimelech and her two Sons Mahlon and Chilion
   • Naomi and Elimelech journey in the Country of Moab because of a famine.
   • Ruth 1:1-2 In the days when the judges governed [Israel], there was a famine in the land [of Canaan]. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live temporarily in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons. The man’s name was Elimelech and his wife’s name was Naomi and his two sons were named Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went to the country of Moab and stayed there.
2. In the country of Moab their sons got Married.
   • Ruth 1:4 They took wives from the Moabite women; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years; 
   • Mahlon married Ruth.
     • Ruth was a Moabitess.
   • Chilion married Orpah.
     • Orpah was a Moabitess.
3. Elimelech, the husband of Naomi died, and then her sons died.
   • Ruth 1:5 and then both Mahlon and Chilion also died, so the woman [Naomi] was left without her two sons and her husband.
4. Naomi decided to go back to her home town.
   • Ruth and Orpah wanted to go with her, but Naomi told them to go home and may God find them new husbands.
     • Ruth 1:8-9 But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you return to your mother’s house. May the Lord show kindness to you as you have shown kindness to the dead and to me. May the Lord grant that you find rest, each one in the home of her husband.” Then she kissed them [goodbye], and they wept aloud. 
   • Orpah went back, but Ruth said, “Your people shall be my people, your God Shall be my God, Where thou diest Will I die.
     • Ruth 1:15-17 Then Naomi said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; turn back and follow your sister-in-law.” But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord do the same to me [as He has done to you], and more also, if anything but death separates me from you.” 
5. So Ruth and Naomi went to Bethlehem in the beginning of the barley harvest.
   • There was a law that said any barley that fell from the bundle they should
     leave it for the poor.
6. Naomi Ruth was poor, so Ruth went to glean (harvest). She went and came and gleaned ears of corns.
   • Ruth 2:2-3 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one [of the reapers] in whose sight I may find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go, my daughter.” So Ruth went and picked up the leftover grain in a field after the reapers; and she happened to stop at the plot of land belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. 
     • The field that she went to belong to a man named Boaz,
     • Boaz was a Kinsman of Elimelech.
     • In these days, if a wife husband died the near is hiasman take care of her or, in this case, them.
7. Boaz was kind to Ruth and said don’t go to another field, and if you wants a drink to drink from the vessels his men drawn.
   •  Ruth 2:8-9 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen carefully, my daughter. Do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but stay here close by my maids. ⁹ Watch which field they reap, and follow behind them. I have commanded the servants not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go to the [water] jars and drink from what the servants draw.” 
     • Ruth was bringing so much that Naomi asked what field she was going to, and she said. Naomi said Boaz was a kinsman.
       • Ruth 2:19-20 Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed of the Lord who has not ceased His kindness to the living and to the dead.” Again Naomi said to her, “The man is one of our closest relatives, one who has the right to redeem us.” 
8. One night, Noami told Ruth to go to the threshing floor. When he[Boaz] lies down to go to him and lay at his feet
   • Boaz said that he was near to her but there was one nearer, he told her to sleep here and in the morning he would ask.
     • Ruth 3:10-13 Then he said, “May you be blessed by the Lord, my daughter. You have made your last kindness better than the first; for you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich. Now, my daughter, do not be afraid. I will do for you whatever you ask, since all my people in the city know that you are a woman of excellence. It is true that I am your close relative and redeemer; however, there is a relative closer [to you] than I. Spend the night [here], and in the morning if he will redeem you, fine; let him do it. But if he does not wish to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.”
   • He did let her go empty handed.
     • He gave her 6 measures of barley.
       • Ruth 3:15 He also said, “Give me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” So Ruth held it and he measured out six measures of barley [into it] and placed it on her. And she went into the city. 
   • The other kins man could not redeem Ruth and Naomi.
     • Ruth 5:5-6 Then Boaz said, “The day that you buy the field from Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the deceased, to restore the name of the deceased to his inheritance.” The closest relative (redeemer) said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, because [by marrying a Moabitess] I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption (purchase) yourself, because I cannot redeem it.”
       • So he said Boaz married Ruth. So he did he took Ruth and she had a son. They named him Obed.
         • Ruth 5:13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. 
         • Ruth 5:17 The neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son (grandson) has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed (worshiper). He is the father of Jesse, the father of David [the ancestor of Jesus Christ].
       • Boaz’s Mother was Rahab, the same one who helped the two spies.
         • Matthew 1:5 Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab, Boaz was the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse.

ALL About Boaz’s Mother Rahab

1. Immediately after crossing the Jordan, Joshua sent two spies, Caleb and Pinchas, to the City of Jericho, the ‘Jews’ first point of attack.
   • Disguised, the spies made their way to an inn owned by a woman named Rahab.
     • Joshua 2:1 Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as scouts secretly from Shittim, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho [the walled city].” So they went and came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab, and lodged there. 
2. Rahab saved the two spies lives by hiding them on her rooftop and covering them with stalks of Flax, which she laid in order on the roof.
   •  Joshua 2:6-7 But [in fact] she had brought the scouts up to the roof and had hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof [to dry]. So the [king’s] men pursued them on the road to the Jordan as far as the fords [east of Jericho]; as soon as the pursuers had gone out after them, the gate [of the city] was shut.
3. After it was safe, she let them down the wall with a red rope. Her house was part of the city wall.
   • Joshua 2:15 Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she was living on the wall.
4. Rahab beg them to save her family/household when the day came they took over.
   • Thy spies said unto her if she gather all the family she could in her house when the day came they would be safe, but if one went out (we with not know one family from another). Rahab agreed to this.
   • Joshua 2:12-14 And now, please swear [an oath] to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father’s household (family), and give me a pledge of truth and faithfulness, and spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters, along with everyone who belongs to them, and let us all live.” So the men said to her, “Our lives for yours if you do not tell [anyone about] this business of ours; then when the Lord gives us the land we will show you kindness and faithfulness [and keep our agreement with you].”
5. Now, when the day came, Joshua said unto the the the men that had been spies to go and bring Rahab and her household out.
6. So the two spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father, her mother, her brethrer, and all that She had. They brought Rahab and her family out of the city.
   • Joshua 6:22-23  But Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring the woman and all that she has out of there, as you have sworn to her.” So the young men, the spies, went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and everything that she had; they also brought out all her relatives and allowed them to stay outside the camp of Israel [at Gilgal during the time required for ceremonial cleansing].