Boaz Bible Study

Boaz Bible Story

Christianity Oasis has provided you with this Boaz Bible study on the Ruth and Boaz Bible story. We'll look into that and all aspects of the Bible seeking truth, understanding and peace.


Daily Bread Devotional Bible Study
The Book of Ruth
Chapter 4


Boaz Bible Study

Ruth and Boaz Bible Story

Welcome to our Christianity Oasis Daily Bread study program. This is our Boaz Bible study on the adorable Ruth and Boaz Bible story and how it affects your be-YOU-tiful Christian walk.

Boaz Bible Study Lesson
Ruth and Boaz Bible Story Explained

Knew you wouldn't miss the final chapter in our study of the story of Ruth! Looking back to our last study, Ruth was asking Boaz to perform the duty of a husband's brother, when he has deceased.

In the world today, things are much different than in Biblical times. To marry a relative is looked down upon, and they claim that the children of such marriages run the risk of birth defects.

In times of old, however, it was common to marry within the same tribe, in fact, this is what the Lord commanded the children of Israel concerning marriage to anyone other than another Israelite:

Boaz Bible Study Truth
Ruth and Boaz Bible Story Events

Deuteronomy 7:3-4

3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

Now, the duty of the brother of a deceased man of Israel was this:

Deuteronomy 25:5-10

5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

Righteous Boaz Bible Study
Ruth and Boaz Bible Story Blessing

Now, Boaz, being a righteous man, told Ruth that there was a closer relative than him, and that if he wouldn't perform the duty of the kinsman, then Boaz would himself.

So, the next morning, Boaz went to the city gate and waited for the kinsman he told Ruth about. When He saw him, he called to him and took him before the elders of the city. Then Boaz said, Naomi, who has returned from the country of Moab is selling a plot of land, which was our brother Elimelech's, and I thought to inform you, saying, Buy it in front of the people and elders of my people.

If you wish to redeem it, then redeem it, but if you don't wish to, then tell me, so that I will know, because there is nobody to redeem it beside you, and I am after you.

The kinsman said, I will redeem it. Then Boaz said, The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

Then the kinsman said, I can't redeem it for myself, unless I forfeit my own inheritance, so I pass my right to redeem it on to you, because I cannot.

Boaz Bible Study Rituals
Ruth and Boaz Bible Story on Customs

Now, this was the custom in the old days in Israel concerning redeeming and transferring title: To confirm all things, a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor, and this was a testimony in Israel. So, the kinsman took off his shoe and said to Boaz, Buy it for you.

Boaz said to the people and the elders, You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from Naomi.

Also, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead is not cut off from among his brethren.

All the people and the elders said, We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that has come into your house like Rachel and Leah, who built the house of Israel, and do worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem. And let your house be like the house of Pharez, the son of Judah, of the children which the Lord shall give you of this young woman.

Boaz Bible Study on Lineage
Child of Ruth and Boaz Bible Story

So, Ruth became the wife of Boaz, and the Lord gave her conception, and she gave birth to a son. The women said to Naomi, Blessed be the Lord, which has not left you this day without a redeemer, that his name may be famous in Israel.

And he shall be to you a renewer of your life, and a supporter of your old age, because your daughter in law, who loves you, which is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.

And Naomi took the child, and took care of it. And the women, her neighbors, gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi, and they called his name Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

These are the 14 generations from Abraham to David:

  • Abraham begat Isaac
  • Isaac begat Jacob
  • Jacob begat Judah
  • Judah begat Pharez
  • Pharez begat Hezron
  • Hezron begat Ram
  • Ram begat Amminadab
  • Amminadab begat Nashon
  • Nashon begat Salmon
  • Salmon begat Boaz
  • Boaz begat Obed
  • Obed begat Jesse and
  • Jesse begat David

Boaz Bible Study Conclusion
Ruth and Boaz Bible Story Summary

That's the story of the birth of king David's grandfather. After David was born, twenty eight generations later, this same bloodline went all the way to Jesus!

Congratulations on completing the study of The Book of Ruth! In our next study, you'll be getting to know many familiar people from the Bible like Eli, Samuel, Saul, David, Jonathan and many others when we open up The First Book of Samuel, the ninth book of the Old Testament, right here at Daily Bread.