Ruth 4:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the women who were her neighbours gave it a name, saying, Naomi has a child; and they gave him the name of Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

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  • Luke 1:58-63 : 58 And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy. 59 And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name; 60 But his mother made answer and said, No, his name is John. 61 And they said, Not one of your relations has that name. 62 And they made signs to his father, to say what name was to be given to him. 63 And he sent for writing materials and put down: His name is John; and they were all surprised.

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  • Ruth 4:11-16
    6 verses
    82%

    11 And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;

    12 May your family be like the family of Perez, the son whom Tamar gave to Judah, from the offspring which the Lord may give you by this young woman.

    13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord made her with child and she gave birth to a son.

    14 And the women said to Naomi, A blessing on the Lord, who has not let you be this day without a near relation, and may his name be great in Israel.

    15 He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.

    16 And Naomi took the child and put her arms round it, and she took care of it.

  • Ruth 4:21-22
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    82%

    21 And Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed;

    22 And Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.

  • 1 Chr 2:11-14
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    11 And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz,

    12 And Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse,

    13 And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third,

    14 Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth,

  • Matt 1:5-6
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    73%

    5 And the son of Salmon by Rahab was Boaz; and the son of Boaz by Ruth was Obed; and the son of Obed was Jesse;

    6 And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah;

  • 1 Chr 2:37-38
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    37 And Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal was the father of Obed,

    38 And Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu was the father of Azariah,

  • Luke 3:31-32
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    31 The son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

    32 The son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

  • Ruth 4:18
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    18 Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron;

  • Ruth 1:19
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    19 So the two of them went on till they came to Beth-lehem. And when they came to Beth-lehem all the town was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?

  • Ruth 1:1-4
    4 verses
    71%

    1 Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.

    2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and were there for some time.

    3 And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, came to his end; and only her two sons were with her.

    4 And they took two women of Moab as their wives: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth; and they went on living there for about ten years.

  • 1 Sam 17:12
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    12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah named Jesse, who had eight sons; and he was an old man in Saul's day, and far on in years.

  • 1 Chr 26:4
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    4 And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the oldest, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth,

  • Ruth 2:1
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    1 And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

  • 1 Sam 4:19-20
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    69%

    19 And his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was with child and near the time when she would give birth; and when she had the news that the ark of God had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, her pains came on her suddenly and she gave birth.

    20 And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it.

  • 2 Kgs 4:17
    68%

    17 Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.

  • Ruth 2:19-20
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    19 And her mother-in-law said to her, Where did you take up the grain today, and where were you working? May a blessing be on him who gave such attention to you. And she gave her mother-in-law an account of where she had been working, and said, The name of the man with whom I was working today is Boaz.

    20 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May the blessing of the Lord, who has at all times been kind to the living and to the dead, be on him. And Naomi said to her, The man is of our family, one of our near relations.

  • Ruth 1:11-12
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    68%

    11 But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands?

    12 Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons,

  • Ruth 1:6-7
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    68%

    6 So she and her daughters-in-law got ready to go back from the country of Moab, for news had come to her in the country of Moab that the Lord, in mercy for his people, had given them food.

    7 And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on their way to go back to the land of Judah.

  • Ruth 1:9
    67%

    9 May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly.

  • Ruth 3:1
    67%

    1 And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, am I not to get you a resting-place where you may be in comfort?

  • 1 Kgs 3:17
    67%

    17 And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.

  • Matt 1:1
    66%

    1 The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

  • 1 Chr 14:3-4
    2 verses
    66%

    3 And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters.

    4 These are the names of the children he had in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab, Nathan and Solomon

  • 1 Chr 4:14
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    14 And Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge-harashim; they were expert workmen.

  • Ruth 4:3
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    3 Then he said to the near relation, Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is offering for a price that bit of land which was our brother Elimelech's:

  • Ruth 2:5-6
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    5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was in authority over the cutters, Whose girl is this?

    6 And the servant who was in authority over the cutters said, It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab;

  • Ruth 1:22
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    22 So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her; and they came to Beth-lehem in the first days of the grain-cutting.

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    3 And I went in to my wife, and she became with child, and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, Give him the name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

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