The Book of Ruth Ruth is a story about loyalty, love, and faith. The simple love story
is a key to understanding the plan of God for love, and marriage as
revealed in the scripture. So simple, yet so powerful when understood,
this book is dedicated to the scriptural explanation of Right
Man/Right Woman as related from the perspective of Right Woman. (Keil
& Delitzch) The book of Ruth is the story of Right Man/Right Woman
from the perspective of the woman. The dedication of the book to the
subject of the right woman in Israel is a significant part of the Old
Covenant (Old Testament). Right woman is an important doctrine because
the people of Israel were symbolically the wife of God (Jehovah). In
this Israel was the right woman, and the Lord was the right man. This
love relationship was the most important relationship and became the
most important commandment: ‘’and you shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might=>
(Deut: 6:5, 11:13). Marriage illustrates a relationship which is very
important. The entire book of Ruth is dedicated to revealing the
Divine Institution of Marriage between Right Man/Right Woman. (Keil &
Delitzch)
Furthermore the book of Ruth is important because it establishes the
origin of the Davidic Dynasty. David was the greatest king of Israel.
The Davidic Covenant establishes his throne. In addition, the book of
Ruth appears to be a simple love story, which people can relate...
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...r God has when one believes in him. The result is a beautiful
story of how God works through the hesed (loyalty) of two women, Ruth
and her mother-in-law Naomi. The story was probably composed later
than the period of the United Kingdom, but it surely is consonant with
the spirit of the age of Solomon. Ruth follows God because she learns
and understands what he could, and he did do for her because of her
faith. (Anderson, p. 244)
Works Cited
C. F. Keil and F. Delitzch (James Martin, Translator), Commentary on
the Old Testament, Vol. II, ISBN 0-8028-8036-3 (Grand Rapids,
Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Co.), 1978.
B.W. Anderson. Understanding the Old Testament. Fourth Edition. (Upper
Saddle River, NJ.)1986
A.S. Herbert. Ruth. Black & Rowley Editors. Peake’s Commentary on the
Bible. Routledge Co. Ltd. 1962.
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