Synopsis: The book of Ruth is a short book of only four chapters and it chronicles part of the life of Ruth’s mother-in-law, Naomi, and Ruth after they returned to Naomi’s home town in Judah because of the death of their husbands. These two women, as widows with no income, were guided by the LORD to the care of a man named Boaz, who married Ruth and provided for both women. Ruth became the great-grandmother of King David and an ancestor of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Key Verse: And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for wither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Ruth 1:16