RUTH.
§ I.
THE
MISFORTUNES OF
NAOMI AND
RUTH.
i. 1-ii. 23.
1. The Death of Elimelech and His Two Sons.
i. 1-5.
- At what period was this?
1.
- What the route from Beth-lehem to Moab?
- Why the name Ephrathites?
2, cf. Gen. xxxv. 19.
- Danger of this move to the faith of Elimelech's sons?
- How long the sojourn?
4.
2. Naomi Returns to Her Own Country.
6-18.
- Why a famine in Judah and not in Moab?
6, 1.
- Why did the daughters in law start?
7.
- Why say, "to her mother's house"?
8.
- What kind of wives had they been?
8.
- Meaning of remark about, "the hand of the Lord"?
13.
- What the effect of the intermarriage on the two young women?
14-17.
- Whence Ruth's power of expression?
16, 17.
3. The Arrival in Beth-lehem.
19-22.
- Meaning of the two names?
20.
- Why ascribe her afflictions to the Lord?
20, 21.
- In what season the return?
4. Ruth Goes Out to Glean.
ii. 1-3.
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- Meaning of "mighty man of wealth"?
1.
- Why Ruth's proposal?
2.
5. She Is kindly Treated by Boaz.
4-16.
- Relation between Boaz and his reapers?
4.
- Why did he come from Beth-lehem?
4.
- Why say, "among the sheaves"?
7.
- Cause of the kind treatment?
11, 12.
- Why compare herself unfavorably with the other gleaners?
13.
- What was parched corn?
14.
6. Her Success in Gleaning.
17-23.
- How much is an ephah?
- How was it kindness to the dead?
20.
- How long the gleaning?
23.
§ II.
RUTH
BECOMES THE
WIFE OF
BOAZ.
iii. 1-iv. 22.
1. Naomi Gives Some Directions to Ruth.
iii. 1-5.
- Her purpose?
1, 2.
- How the winnowing done?
2.
- Why the grain still on the ground?
2. The Directions Followed, and the Result.
6-18.
- Meaning of Ruth's request?
9, cf. 10-13.
- Was her act improper?
11.
- Why was Naomi so confident?
18.
3. The Right of Redemption Transferred to Boaz.
iv. 1-12.
- Why had the land been sold?
3.
- Why take Ruth instead of Naomi?
- Why the refusal?
- Was the law fully carried out? See
Deut. xxv. 7-10.
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4. A Son Born and His Genealogy Traced.
13-22.
- Why Naomi congratulated?
15, 16.
- At what period was this?
20, cf. Matt. i. 5.
- When the book written, and for what purpose?
- What state of society under the Judges does it indicate? [151]
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