...................................................................LET US LEARN TOGETHER WHAT IS GOOD. Job 34:4b(NIV)................................................................Some people see the Bible as a long and boring book filled with incidents and events from the lives of ancient people who probably never existed. The biblical stories are seen as fables. In this blog, many of the situations and conversations found in the Holy Scriptures have been placed in categories that correspond to expressive sayings and phrases. Reference information, background information and links connecting the people and places are given to help you find a place to begin reading the Bible for yourself.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Love and Marriage

Boaz, Ruth and King David:

So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son. And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. 
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him. And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David. Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David
.-Ruth 4:13-22***Boaz was an Israelite from the tribe of Judah. Boaz's ancestors Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai) were 2 of the children born to Terah. Abraham and Sarah's only child, their son Isaac, married Rebekah, the great-niece of Abraham and Sarah. Isaac and Rebekah's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel) married Rebekah's nieces Leah and Rachel. Judah was the 4th son born to Jacob and Leah. Judah married a Canaanite woman, and sons Er, Onan and Shelah were born to Judah and his wife. The Lord God caused Er and Onan, the oldest sons to die. Sometime after Judah's wife died, Judah was unknowingly intimate with Tamar, the widow of Er and Onan. Twin sons Pharez and Zarah (Perez and Zerah) were born to Judah and Tamar. Salmon's wife is widely regarded to have been Rahab (Rachab?), the former prostitute in Jericho. Boaz became the husband of Ruth, the Moabite widow who had been married to Mahlon, the son of Elimelech and Naomi. Obed was born to Boaz and Naomi, and Jesse was born to Obed, and David was the 8th son born to Jesse. Over a decade after David was born, Samuel the priest, prophet and judge, anointed David to reign as king over the Israelites in the Promised Land, according to the command of the Lord God. When David was 30 years old, he began to reign only over the tribe of Judah. When David was 37 1/2 years old, he became the 2nd king to reign over all of the Israelites in the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Over 900 years after 70-year-old David died, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Notably, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, Tamar, Pharez, Zarah, Hezron, Ram, Amminadab, Nahshon, Salmon, Rachab (Rahab?), Boaz, Ruth, Obed, Jesse, and David are listed in a biblical genealogy of Jesus the Christ, the Son of God.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-2:12, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 4:1-23, 10:1-29:30, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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