Antwort How did Ruth wait for Boaz? Weitere Antworten – How did Boaz accept Ruth
One day, she met the owner of a field named Boaz, who received her kindly. Naomi urged Ruth to return to Boaz at night and “uncover his feet”—an invitation to have relations with her. In response, Boaz promised to take care of her, a symbolic acceptance of marriage (Ruth 3:11).According to the midrash, Ruth was forty years old and not a young woman when Boaz married her, a fact that stresses the urgency of her desire to marry and bear children (Ruth Rabbah 4:4; BT Shabbat 113b). The midrash puts Boaz's age at that time as eighty (Ruth Rabbah 7:4; Ruth Zuta 4:13).Following the instruction of Naomi, Ruth asked Boaz, a near kinsman, to marry her. Boaz followed the procedures of the law of Moses by first inviting a nearer kinsman to fulfill his duty to marry Ruth. When that kinsman declined, Boaz married Ruth.
Why did Boaz marry Ruth and not Naomi : Boaz truly understood the threat of family extinction that weighed upon Naomi and Ruth, and hence, he was stimulated to take the responsibility of a redeemer for Ruth so that Elimelech's family would not be blotted out amongst his people.
How did Ruth find favor with Boaz
Ruth eventually finds the field of Boaz, a distant relative of her mother-in-law, to work in and receives great opportunity, protection, food and water from this owner (Ruth 2:8-9). Ruth is shocked at this amazing treatment, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me – a foreigner” (Ruth 2:10).
How does Ruth express her interest in Boaz : Naomi told Ruth to offer herself sexually to Boaz by uncovering him, but Ruth has taken the initiative by asking Boaz to "spread the skirt of your cloak over your handmaid"-to cover her in the covenant bond of marriage.
This love story continued with the marriage of Ruth and Boaz, who had a baby, and this baby was the grandfather of King David. After that the story continued until it reached to the birth of the Redeemer, not only of the family, but of the whole world, Jesus Christ.
Ruth became Boaz's wife, and bore him a son, Obed, who became the father of Jesse, the father of King David.
Did Ruth get pregnant by Boaz
So Boaz took Ruth home as his wife and had sexual relations with her. The LORD let her become pregnant, and she gave birth to a son.That night on the threshing floor was Ruth's first and only “move.” She didn't nag him continually until he eventually agreed to marry her. She didn't behave desperate, compromising her own worth, over and over again. She took ONE seriously bold step, but after that Boaz took charge.Ruth, as a Moabite, grew up to know and love her mother-in-law, Naomi. Naomi must have been a kind and giving person, certainly thinking of others' needs before her own. Ruth was drawn to her generous nature and chose to stay with Naomi following the death of her husband to care for her.
Lessons from Ruth and Naomi
The Book of Ruth is a beautiful example of how God can take a hopeless situation and turn it into something glorious. The story begins in tragedy – with famine, and the death of Ruth and Naomi's husbands. But because Ruth is loyal and faithful, God rewards her.
What does Boaz symbolize : According to the Bible, Boaz (Hebrew: בֹּעַז Bōʿaz) and Jachin ( יָכִין Yāḵīn) were two copper, brass or bronze pillars which stood on the porch of Solomon's Temple, the first Temple in Jerusalem. They are used as symbols in Freemasonry and sometimes in religious architecture.
Who waited 7 years for his wife : Jacob
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. When the seven years were fulfilled at last, Jacob spent his wedding night only to discover at dawn that it wasn't Rachel, but her elder sister Leah whom Laban had delivered to Jacob's tent.
Did Naomi take Ruth’s baby
After Ruth gives birth to a son, the neighbors say: “A son is born to Naomi” (Ruth 4:17), who is the child's foster mother. The Rabbis observe that the child is attributed to Naomi because she raised him (BT Sanhedrin 19b).
Ruth is a Moabite immigrant to Judea due to her first and second marriages and struggles to adjust to the culture. She expresses much deference to Naomi and is often forced into subservience to her second husband, Boaz.NLT So Boaz took Ruth into his home, and she became his wife. When he slept with her, the Lord enabled her to become pregnant, and she gave birth to a son.
How to be a man like Boaz : Here are some key characteristics of a man who is marriage-material:
- He is Worthy. Boaz was described as a worthy man (2:1) who believed in the Lord (2:4).
- He is a Protector.
- He is a Provider.
- He is Observant.
- He is Compassionate.
- He is a Man of Integrity.