Sometimes in life, there may be difficult situations that some people have to overcome when they marry. Such as a divorce that has to happen for two people before they can marry someone else. Some people will bring children into the marriage but the question is, will the step parent accept them. Or what if someone gets pregnant by someone before marriage, and all to many times the father wants nothing to do with having to help raise their own child. Of course that isn't always the situation.
None of these were the complications that faced Ruth and Boaz in their own situation. So what was it, and did it stop them?
Read on for a short picture of it in part 3 of this love story or go to: The unique Love story of Ruth & Boaz - Good News of the Gospel Way to read the complete story of their love as it is recorded in the book of Ruth.
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Kinsman Redeemer
But the situation is more complicated than simply love between them. Naomi is a relative of Boaz, and since Ruth is her daughter-in-law, Boaz and Ruth are kin by marriage. Boaz must marry her as a ‘kinsmen redeemer’. This meant that under the Law of Moses he would marry her ‘in the name’ of her first husband (Naomi’s son) and so provide for her. This would entail that Boaz purchase Naomi’s family fields. Though that would prove costly to Boaz it was not the biggest obstacle. There was another closer relative that had first rights to buy Naomi’s family’s fields (and also thus marry Ruth). So the marriage of Ruth to Boaz hung on whether another man wanted the responsibility to care for Naomi and Ruth. At a public meeting of the city elders this first-in-line declined the marriage since it put his own estate at risk. Boaz was thus free to purchase and redeem Naomi’s family estate and marry Ruth.
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And so it was, Ruth and Boaz did marry. But this was not to be an ordinary union between the two. Why not? Find out in part 4 or check it out in the book of Ruth or at the website above.
Thanks for coming by, and until next time, God bless you!
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