11/30/2023 0 Comments Ruth 4 bible study![]() ![]() Certainly Ruth and Naomi were watching and listening. If you will redeem it, redeem it: When Boaz put it in terms of purely a land transaction, there was no hesitation on the nearer kinsman’s part. Anyone would want to buy back a piece of property and keep it in the family name by keeping it for one’s self.Ĭ. The piece of land: When Boaz brought the matter up to the nearer kinsman, he brought it up as a matter regarding property – something any man would be interested in. Again, the kinsman-redeemer had the responsibility to protect the persons, property, and posterity of the larger family – and all of these duties went together.ī. So, God made provision for land that was “sold,” that it might be redeemed back to the family by the kinsman-redeemer. Every fifty years, it had be returned to the original family group (Leviticus 25:8-17) God intended that the land stay within those tribes and family groups, so the land could never permanently be sold. When Israel came into the Promised Land during the days of Joshua, the land was divided among the tribes and then among the family groups. It was also to keep land allotted to members of the clan within the clan. ![]() Naomi… sold the piece of land: The duty of the goel – the kinsman-redeemer – was more than the duty to preserve the family name of his brother in Israel. If you will redeem it, redeem it but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know for there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.’” And he said, “I will redeem it.”Ī. And I thought to inform you, saying, ‘Buy it back in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. Then he said to the close relative, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, sold the piece of land which belonged to our brother Elimelech. (3-4) Boaz asks the nearer kinsman to redeem the land of Naomi (and Elimelech). “Doubtless Boaz both knew his name, and called him by it but it is omitted by the holy writer, partly because it was unnecessary to know it and principally in way of contempt, as is usual, and a just punishment upon him, that he who would not preserve his brother’s name might lose his own, and lie buried in the grave of perpetual oblivion.” (Poole) 2. He declined to fulfill his obligations as the nearer kinsman to Ruth. So-and-so.” The writer of Ruth never identified the name of the nearer kinsman because he was not worthy of the honor. Come aside, friend, sit down here: Literally, in the ancient Hebrew, when Boaz greeted the nearer kinsman he called him “Mr. Clearly this was a tactical advantage to Boaz.ĭ. Because Ruth had quietly gone back home after being at the threshing floor at Boaz’s instruction (Ruth 3:14), Boaz’s approach to this nearer kinsman was planned as a complete surprise to the other man. ![]() Now this man came by the city gates as Boaz sat there. The near kinsman of who Boaz had spoken came by: Boaz surprised Ruth in Ruth 3:12 by telling her there was a nearer kinsman than himself. The city gate was “A kind of outdoor court, the place were judicial matters were resolved by the elders and those who had earned the confidence and respect of the people… a place for business and as a kind of forum or public meeting place.” (Huey)Ĭ. For an ancient city in Israel it was a combination of a city council chamber and a courtroom. Boaz went up to the gate: The gate of the city was always the place where the esteemed and honorable men of the city sat. Would he claim the right of kinsman-redeemer towards Ruth, and keep her and Boaz from coming together?ī. Yet, there was a kinsman closer to Ruth and he had priority. Ruth and Boaz were obviously in love and wanted to get married, with Boaz exercising the right of the goel – the kinsman-redeemer. Now Boaz went: The previous chapter left us at a dramatic point. And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.Ī. So Boaz said, “Come aside, friend, sit down here.” So he came aside and sat down. Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz had spoken came by. (1-2) Boaz meets the nearer kinsman at the city gates. The nearer kinsman declines his right of redemption. ![]()
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