Highlights:

1. Law legally forbade intermarriage (Deuteronomy 7:2-3)

2. Especially marrying a Moabite was forbidden (Deuteronomy 23:3)

3. Boaz’s mother was Rahab the harlot (Matthew 1:5)

4. Law shut Ruth out: Grace took her in (Romans 8:3-4)

Prophetic points about Ruth:

1. Boaz is a type of kinsman redeemer.

2. Naomi is a type of Israel.

3. Ruth, the gentile, is taken as a wife.

4. Naomi meets Boaz through Ruth.

5. Ruth learns the ways from Naomi.

6. Ruth is at the feet of Boaz in Threshing floor scene.

Prophetic Blessing / Marriage Toast: (Ruth 4:11)

1. Famous in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2, Ruth 4:12)

2. Why did they wish a blessing “House like Pharez” in verse 12? (See context in Genesis 38:6-29)

3. Bastard ineligible for inheritance until 10th Generation (Deuteronomy 23:2)

4. The genealogy at the end of the book of Ruth shows David at the 10th Generation.

   • In Ruth 4:18-22 we see David being the 10th Generation from Pharez.... Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahson begat Salmon, And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.