The Bible In Paintings: RUTH AND BOAZ MARRY – BABY OBED!

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE

R U T H
CHAPTER 4

Boaz went up to the town gate and sat there. When the kinsman-redeemer he had mentioned came along, Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down. Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit here,” and they did so. Then he said to the kinsman-redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech. I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.”

“I will redeem it,” he said.

Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and from Ruth the Moabitess, you acquire the dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.”

At this, the kinsman-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.”

(Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)

So the kinsman-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself.” And he removed his sandal.

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RUTH COLLET
"Boaz Sits at the Gate with His Nearest of Kin and Arranges
to Buy All of Naomi's Property and to Marry Ruth"

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CHANA HELEN ROSENBERG
"The Sandal Ceremony"

Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelech, Kilion and Mahlon. I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess as my wife. Today you are witnesses!”

Then the elders and all those at the gate said, “We are witnesses.”

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife.

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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
"Ruth and Boaz"

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YOSI MIZRAHI
"Ruth and Boaz"

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LEOPOLD BRUCKNER
"Boaz and Ruth's Wedding"

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G. FREMAN
"Boaz Espouseth Ruth"

Then he went to her, and the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the LORD, who this day has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap and cared for him. The women living there said, “Naomi has a son.” And they named him Obed. HE WAS THE FATHER OF JESSE, THE FATHER OF DAVID.

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SWANSON
"Ruth Marries Boaz and Obed is Born"

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SIMEON SOLOMON
"Ruth, Naomi and Obed"

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CHANA HELEN ROSENBERG
"Naomi and Oved"

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"Boaz, Ruth, Naomi & Obed"

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"Naomi Holds Her Grandson Obed, the Grandfather of King David"

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EMILE LEVY
"Naomi, Obed and Ruth"

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added
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[Hebrews 11:6]

I am exceedingly blessed. Life with Jesus keeps getting better and better. I have my share of challenges, but this is one of His compensations.

[left that other site]

Because Humans are Fallen, and the whole world is under the control of you-know-who.

[freepertoo]

Oh, these are just wonderful!

[Jim W N]

Thanks. I guess your name is Dan because that’s what everybody’s calling you. I’ll try to remember that.

This is such a touching story and as always in the Bible, an unveiling of Jesus. (The Old Testament is Jesus concealed, the New Testament is Jesus revealed.)

Where I just read (again) that Boaz declares that he is the kinsman-redeemer and will marry Ruth, I teared up (again). So touching. Plus, I’m a softie I guess.

Boaz is a type of Jesus, our Kinsman-Redeemer. Kinsman because being God and very rich, he also became a man, our kinsman. Redeemer because by his blood, we are redeemed. Ruth, then, is a type of us, the church, to whom Jesus is espoused and with whom we will soon have the amazing Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.

Maybe I’ll FReepMail you...

[Hebrews 11:6]

(The Old Testament is Jesus concealed, the New Testament is Jesus revealed.)

Jase Robertson (Duck Dynasty) summarized the Bible this way:

OLD TESTAMENT--Jesus is coming to earth!

FOUR GOSPELS--Jesus is on the earth!

EPISTLES--Jesus is coming back!

[left that other site]

They are indfeed! :-)

[SisterK]

the artist who did #18 shows extraordinary skill

Naomi went from being bitter to truly blessed.
Praise God!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Naomi went from being bitter to truly blessed. Praise God!

You have distilled a point which is easy to overlook. Ruth and Boaz were not the only ones whose lives were improved by God.

[Maudeen]

Wonderful pics and you are so right, an excellent pictorial summary of the Book of Ruth!!!!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Always glad when you’re happy, Pat.