Sunday School Lesson
Sunday Morning Bible Class October 19, 2025
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Theme:
Biblical Families
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Naomi, Ruth, And Boaz
Ruth 1:1-5, 8-16; 4:5-12
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Introduction
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Deaths
1) Now it came to pass, in the days when the Judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem, judah, went to dwell in the country of Moab, he and his wufe and his two sons. 2) The name of the man was Ellimelech, the name of his wife was Naomi, and the name of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion---Ephrathites of Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to the country of Moab and remained there. 3) Then Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons. 4) Now they took wives of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years. 5) Then both Mahlon and Chiliion also died; so the women survived her two sons and her husband.
Commentary
Ruth 1:1-5
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Three Widows
8) And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each to her mother's house. The Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt kindly witht the dead and with me. 9) The Lord grant that you may fnd rest, each in the house of her husband." So she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept. 10) And they said to her, "Surely we will return with you to your people." 11) But Naomi said, "Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? 12) Turn back my daughters, go---for I am too old to have a husband. If I should have a husband tonight and should also bear sons, 13) would you wait for them till they are grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me!" 14) Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. 15) And she said, "Look your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law." 16) But Ruth said: "Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. 17) Where you die, I will die, And there I will be buried. The Lord do to me and more also, if anything but death parts you and me." 18) When she aw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her.
Commentary
Ruth1:8-18
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Boaz Redeems Ruth
5) Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also buy it from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance." 6) And the close relative said, "I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance. You redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem it." 7) Now this wass the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging, to confirm anything: one man took off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was a conformation in Israel. 8) Therefore the close realative said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself." So he took off his sandal. 9) And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, "You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's from the hand of Naomi. 10) Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from his postion at the gate. You are witnesses this day. 11) And all the peopole who were at the gate, said, "We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Raachel and Leah, the two who made the house of Israel; and may you prosper in Eprathah and be famous in Bethlehem. 12) May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring which the Lord will give you from this young woman."
Commentary
Ruth 4:5:2-12
II Timothy 2:15: "Be dillgent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
