The Story of the Bible – The Story of Luther

Ruth's story shows us the simplicity and charm of early Palestinian life.

The city of Bethlehem lived a man named Eli Miller. His wife was Named Naomi, and they had two sons, Magilian and Marlen. Elimiller's family was well-off, but when a famine came to bethlehem, he lost everything he had.

He had a wealthy cousin named Boaz. But Eli miller was too arrogant to ask for help. Rather than ask for help, he would rather take his wife and children to move to moab to build a new foothold.

At first he worked hard, but soon he died suddenly, leaving his widow to take care of his two sons.

These are two decent young lads. They helped their mothers cultivate the land, and when they grew to adulthood, they married girls from nearby Moabese villages, and they both longed to spend their lives among the friendly strangers who accepted them.

However, Magilian and Marlen inherited the weakness of their father, and they both fell ill and died in a short time. Their mother was so grief-stricken that she decided to return to her hometown so that she might be able to spend the rest of her life in the people she had known since childhood who spoke the language she was familiar with.

She liked her two daughters-in-law very much, but she could not ask the two girls to follow her anyway. She told them what she had in mind, and Macchilian's widow, Ogulpa, thought it would not be wise for her to leave her village. She said goodbye to Naomi and stayed in the Moab Zone.

However, Marlen's widow, Ruth, refused to leave the old woman, who was already single on earth and had married into the Elimiller family. She had to abandon her mother's family for the sake of her husband's family. She decided to stay with Naomi. Because, she felt it was her responsibility. She declared that nothing could separate her from her dead husband's mother and gently embraced her mother-in-law.

Two women came to Bethlehem together.

Of course, they are extremely poor, and they have no money to buy bread. But a few years ago, the legislator Moses considered that some people would starve, and once stipulated that the ears of wheat that fell on the ground after the harvest must be given to the poor. The farmer owns all the grain, but the little that falls during the harvest belongs to the man who has no land of his own, according to god's right.

At the time of taking Omi and the road to Daberlehem, it was the season of harvest.

Boaz was Eli miller's cousin, and his men were in the field at the time. And Ruth followed the wheat pickers to get some bread for Naomi.

She did this for days.

Because she was a stranger among the Jewish women in Bethlehem, people inquired about her situation. Soon everyone knew her story, and finally it reached Boas's ears. He was curious to see her, to know what kind of woman she was, so under the pretext of inspecting the fields, he talked to her.

At lunchtime, he invited her to sit with himself and the others who worked, and gave her all the bread she wanted.

Ruth ate very little. The rest she took home to Naomi—she was too old to work anymore.

The next morning, she returned to the ground. Boaz didn't want to hurt her self-esteem and wanted to ease her task. So he instructed his wheat harvesters not to work too carefully, but to leave enough ears of wheat in the field.

Ruth worked all day. In the evening, as she prepared to carry the package home, she found herself picking up so much that it was hard to carry.

She told Naomi what had happened, how she had met Boas, and how she had picked up an ear of wheat that she hadn't been able to find for a week in one morning.

This made Naomi very happy. She felt she wouldn't live long, and now she hoped Boaz would marry Ruth as his wife. She knew that Ruth would have a good home for the rest of her life. Yes, Ruth was indeed a foreigner. But she married a distant relative of Boaz, which almost made her a member of a large Jewish family, and everyone liked her.

First, Boaz redeemed the land owned by his cousin Eli miller (according to another law made by Moses, to protect the farmer from plunder by usurers, which was his right to be honorable). Then he proposed to Ruth.

Ruth accepted him, and Naomi came to stay with them until the day she died.

But before closing her eyes, she saw Ruth's eldest son, named Obider.

He grew up to be an adult, and he had a son named Jesse and a grandson named David. David became king of the Jews, a direct ancestor of Mary, the wife of Joseph, the carpenter of Nazareth.

In this way, Jesus was the descendant of the gentle and kind Ruth who was able to obey the guidance of her own good heart and leave her people to take care of the woman who treated her like a loving mother.