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The Jamieson, Fausset, Brown Commentary
Ruth 4:1-22 (KJB)
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CHAPTER 4 
Ruth 4:1-5. • JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OUBOAZ CALLS INTO JUDGMENT THE NEXT KINSMAN.
Verse 1. Then went Boaz up to the gate of the city--a roofed building, unenclosed by walls; the place where, in ancient times, and in many Eastern towns still, all business transactions are made, and where, therefore, the kinsman was most likely to be found. No preliminaries were necessary in summoning one before the public assemblage; no writings and no delay were required. In a short conversation the matter was stated and arranged--probably in the morning as people went out, or at noon when they returned from the field.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OUVerse 2. he took ten men of the elders of the city--as witnesses. In ordinary circumstances, two or three were sufficient to attest a bargain; but in cases of importance, such as matrimony, divorce, conveyancing of property, it was the Jewish practice to have ten (1Ki 21:8).• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OUVerse 3. Naomi . . . selleth a parcel of land--that is, entertains the idea of selling. In her circumstances she was at liberty to part with it (Le 25:25). Both Naomi and Ruth had an interest in the land during their lives; but Naomi alone was mentioned, not only because she directed all the negotiations, but because the introduction of Ruth's name would awaken a suspicion of the necessity of marrying her, before the first proposition was answered.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OUVerse 4. there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee--(See on De 25:5). The redemption of the land of course involved a marriage with Ruth, the widow of the former owner.Ruth 4:6-8. • JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OUHE REFUSES THE REDEMPTION.
Verse 6. The kinsman said, I cannot redeem it . . ., lest I mar mine own inheritance--This consequence would follow, either, first, from his having a son by Ruth, who, though heir to the property, would not bear his name; his name would be extinguished in that of her former husband; or, secondly, from its having to be subdivided among his other children, which he had probably by a previous marriage. This right, therefore, was renounced and assigned in favor of Boaz, in the way of whose marriage with Ruth the only existing obstacle was now removed.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OUVerse 7, 8. a man plucked off his shoe--Where the kinsman refused to perform his duty to the family of his deceased relation, the widow was directed to pull off the shoe with some attendant circumstances of contemptuous disdain. But, as in this case, there was no refusal, the usual ignominy was spared; and the plucking off the shoe, the only ceremony observed, was a pledge of the transaction being completed.Ruth 4:9-12. • JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OUHE MARRIES RUTH.
Verse 9. Boaz said unto the elders, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was . . . Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi--Although the widow of Chilion was still living, no regard was paid to her in the disposal of her husband's property. From her remaining in Moab, she was considered to have either been married again, or to have renounced all right to an inheritance with the family of Elimelech.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OUVerse 10. Ruth the Moabitess . . . have I purchased to be my wife--This connection Boaz not only might form, since Ruth had embraced the true religion, but he was under a legal necessity of forming it.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OUVerse 11. all the people and the elders, said, We are witnesses--A multitude, doubtless from curiosity or interest, were present on the occasion. There was no signing of deeds; yet was the transfer made, and complete security given, by the public manner in which the whole matter was carried on and concluded.• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OU
the Lord make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah--This was the usual bridal benediction.Verse 12. let thy house be like the house of Pharez--that is, as honorable and numerous as his. He was the ancestor of the Beth-lehem people, and his family one of the five from which the tribe of Judah sprang.Ruth 4:13-18. • JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OUSHE BEARS OBED.
Verse 17. Obed--means "servant."• JFB Top â € ¢ SRB AC OUVerse 18-22. these are the generations of Pharez--that is, his descendants. This appendix shows that the special object contemplated by the inspired author of this little book was to preserve the memory of an interesting domestic episode, and to trace the genealogy of David. There was an interval of three hundred eighty years between Salmon and David. It is evident that whole generations are omitted; the leading personages only are named, and grandfathers are said, in Scripture language, to beget their grandchildren, without specifying the intermediate links.
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These files are a derivative of an electronic edition prepared from text scanned by Woodside Bible Fellowship.This expanded edition of the Jameison-Faussett-Brown Commentary is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed.
Bibliography Information
Jamieson, Robert, D.D. "Commentary on Ruth 4". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory
on the Whole Bible". <http://www.studylight.org/com/jfb/view.cgi?book=ru&chapter=004>. 1871.
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