Who Was Ruth In The Bible? (Secrets Revealed)

Who Was Ruth In The Bible?

Ruth in the bible was "of the women of Moab" but she was a descendant of Lot, the nephew of the partriarch Abraham.

This is seen in Ruth 1:4, Genesis 19:37 and Genesis 11:31.

Her first husband, father-in law, and her brother-in-law all died.

Later, she married Boaz and had a son whose name was Obed. The book of Ruth bears her name.

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Ruth 1

1 In the days when the judges ruled,^[a] there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.

 ² The man’s name was Elimelek, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.

³ Now Elimelek, Naomi’s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.

 ⁴ They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, ⁵ both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.