The Book of Ruth relates that Ruth and Orpah, two women of Moab, had married two sons of Elimelech and Naomi, Judeans who had settled in Moab to escape a famine in Judah. The husbands of all three women die; Naomi plans to return to her native Bethlehem and urges her daughters-in-law to return to their families.
As Christians we disagree with this social justice theory, but God forbid if we fail to recognize the need for justice in this world....
Ruth is the person after whom the Book of Ruth is named. She was a Moabite woman who married an Israelite. After the death...
The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are...
