Year not stated · Conquest and Judges

Ruth and Boaz in Bethlehem

In the days when the judges ruled, Ruth the Moabitess clung to Naomi, gleaned in the field of Boaz, and became the great-grandmother of David (Ruth 1:1, 4:17-22). Scripture gives the era but no year.

📖 Ruth 1:1

1In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.

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