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960 BCE
Event #1
Famine in the land of Canaan in Israel -
960 BCE
Event #2
Elimelech and his wife Naomi went to live in Moab with their two sons mahlon and chillion -
956 BCE
Event #3
Elimelech dies and Naomi is left with their two sons -
950 BCE
Event #4
Naomi’s sons marry two women from Moab, Oprah and Ruth -
940 BCE
Event #5
After 10 years, Mallon and Chilion die. Naomi, Oprah, and Ruth were all windows and all they had was each other. -
940 BCE
Event #6
When Naomi heard that the lord has granted food for the people in Bethlehem, she decides to return with Oprah and Ruth -
940 BCE
Event #7
Naomi then told her two daughters-in-laws, ‘Go back to your own mothers’ homes. May the lord show you the same kindness you have to show your dead husbands and to me. May God hell you find new husbands -
940 BCE
Event #8
So she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept, and they said to her “Surely we will return with you to your people -
939 BCE
Event #9
Oprah and Ruth wept again. Oprah kissed Naomi goodbye and returned home to her mother’s house. Ruth however clung hold of Naomi and would not let go -
939 BCE
Event 10
“Don’t urge me to leave you”, Ruth replied, “where you go I will go, where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people and your god will be my god. Where you die I will die” -
939 BCE
Event 11
When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to stay with her, they both set off on the road to Bethlehem -
939 BCE
Event 12
When they got there Ruth decided that she should go do some kind of work. It was harvest time, so she worked in the fields following behind the harvesters and picked up an barley that they had dropped. -
938 BCE
Event 13
The worker of the field ca,e by and saw turn working. His name was Boaz and he was related to Elimelech who was Naomis husband -
938 BCE
Event 14
Boaz went to go talk to Ruth, he said to her, “Don’t go work in any other field but stay here with the other servant girls. I will make sure you are safe and whenever you are thirsty go and get a drink from water jars.” When Ruth heard this she bowed down to Boaz and asked “Hwy are you being so nice to me, I’m not even from here” -
938 BCE
Event 15
Boaz replied, “I know what you’re done for Naomi, you left your family and moved to a place you’ve never been. May the lord reward you for your kindness.” -
938 BCE
Event 16
RuTh thanked Boaz and continued with her work. Boaz even ordered his workers to drop extra barley so Ruth could have more for herself. She took all the barley home and shared what she had with Naomi -
937 BCE
Event 17
Naomi encourages Ruth to seek marriage with Boaz -
936 BCE
Event 18
So Boaz took Ruth and married her. The lord let her become pregnant. And she gave birth to a son names ones, grandfather of Kind Gavin and an ancestry of the messiah, Jesus Christ