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NASB | Ruth 4:5 Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the deceased, in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ruth 4:5 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." |
Subject: Were woman bought and sold? |
Bible Note: Aaron, Your comments are extremely insightful and add an immense amount to broaden my perspective. Now that you mention it, Boaz clearly represents Jesus as the kinsman redeemer. I've always viewed Ruth's role as a gentile (sinner) who converts to Judaism (Christianity). If one adopts a more expansive biblical perspective than what the book of Ruth alone can provide, we may potentially apply some of these other roles as well. Here is just some of my own immediate speculation, if I'm not overly projecting my ideas onto the text here. Naomi (the patriarch Israel) becomes barren with the loss of her two sons (the nations of Judah and Israel). The sinner Ruth (gentile church) converts to Judaism (Christianity) with the aid of Boaz the kinsman redeemer (Jesus). John the Baptist (the Law of Moses) couldn't quite get the job of redemption done, despite his best efforts, so he ended up just pointing the way. ---- And here is just a wild side note with a possible modern day reference, although this would strictly reflect my own personal beliefs. After the reign of King Solomon, his two sons Jeroboam and Rehoboam got into a big fight. Hence, the nation of Israel (the Catholic Church) and the nation of Judah (the Protestant Church) wind up in a near-permanent schism, and are each eventually subjugated and exiled during the Assyrian and Babylonian dominations. The schism of God's people basically amplified an apostasy. Please read the texts here carefully. ---- There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. (1 Kings 14:30 NAS95) Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it. At the end of three years they captured it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured. Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and put them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded; they would neither listen nor do it. (2 Kings 18:9-12 NAS95) At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it. Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign. He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, just as the LORD had said. Then he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land. (2 Kings 24:10-14 NAS95) The word of the LORD came again to me saying, "And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, 'For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.' "Then join them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. "When the sons of your people speak to you saying, 'Will you not declare to us what you mean by these?' say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand."' "The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. "Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. "They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God. "My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them. (Ezekiel 37:15-24 NAS95) I'd be interested in your opinion as well. Reighnskye |