Excursus: The Line of Boaz

As part of my research for a sermon on Ruth 3, I wrote this brief excursus to help understand Boaz’ risky acceptance of Ruth. God was at work before Boaz was even born to prepare Boaz for the Moabitess who was to come, and through whom the line of David, and of Jesus, would come. As of this writing I have not read anything on the fact of Boaz’ family prior to his marriage to Ruth. We aren’t given alot of information on the family, but what we are given provides a great deal of insight, in my opinion, of the man Boaz. Boaz is a wonderful OT example of righteous living. His righteousness and kindness to Ruth and Naomi were a result of his acknowledgement of God’s righteousness and kindness to Israel. He had great reason to be sensitive to...

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