Ruth 4:17

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The women living there said, 'Naomi has a son!' And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

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  • Luke 1:58-63 : 58 Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her. 59 On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah after his father. 60 But his mother responded, 'No! He will be called John.' 61 They said to her, 'None of your relatives has that name.' 62 So they motioned to his father to find out what he wanted to name the child. 63 He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, 'His name is John.' And they were all amazed.

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  • Ruth 4:11-16
    6 verses
    82%

    11All the people who were at the gate and the elders said, 'We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.'

    12May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, through the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.

    13So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. When he went to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.

    14The women said to Naomi, 'Praise the Lord, who has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer today. May his name become famous in Israel!'

    15He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.

    16Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became his nurse.

  • Ruth 4:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21Salmon fathered Boaz, and Boaz fathered Obed,

    22Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.

  • 1 Chr 2:11-14
    4 verses
    80%

    11Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz.

    12Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse.

    13Jesse fathered his firstborn, Eliab; Abinadab, the second; and Shimea, the third;

    14Nethanel, the fourth; Raddai, the fifth;

  • Matt 1:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab; Boaz was the father of Obed by Ruth; Obed was the father of Jesse.

    6Jesse was the father of David the king. David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah.

  • 1 Chr 2:37-38
    2 verses
    73%

    37Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed.

    38Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah.

  • Luke 3:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

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

  • Ruth 4:18
    72%

    18Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron,

  • Ruth 1:19
    71%

    19So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?"

  • Ruth 1:1-4
    4 verses
    71%

    1During the time when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah left to live temporarily in the fields of Moab, he, his wife, and his two sons.

    2The man's name was Elimelech, his wife's name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They came to the fields of Moab and settled there.

    3Then Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.

    4These sons married Moabite women. One was named Orpah, and the other was named Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

  • 1 Sam 17:12
    70%

    12Now David was the son of an Ephrathite man named Jesse from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul's time, he was old and advanced in years.

  • 1 Chr 26:4
    70%

    4Obed-Edom also had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth.

  • Ruth 2:1
    70%

    1Now Naomi had a relative on her husband's side, a prominent and wealthy man of the family of Elimelech. His name was Boaz.

  • 1 Sam 4:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the Ark of God had been captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, overwhelmed by her labor pains.

    20As she was dying, the women attending her said, 'Don’t despair, you have given birth to a son.' But she did not answer or pay attention.

  • 2 Kgs 4:17
    68%

    17But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the appointed time the next year, just as Elisha had told her.

  • Ruth 2:19-20
    2 verses
    68%

    19Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you." Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose field she had worked. She said, "The man's name I worked with today is Boaz."

    20Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead." She added, "That man is a close relative of ours; he is one of our kinsman-redeemers."

  • Ruth 1:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11But Naomi replied, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Do I still have sons in my womb who could become your husbands?

    12Return home, my daughters. I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons—

  • Ruth 1:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6Naomi arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the fields of Moab because she had heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food.

    7She left the place where she had been living, along with her two daughters-in-law, and they began to travel on the road back to the land of Judah.

  • Ruth 1:9
    67%

    9May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband." She kissed them goodbye, and they lifted up their voices and wept.

  • Ruth 3:1
    67%

    1Then Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, 'My daughter, should I not seek a home for you where you will be well taken care of?'

  • 1 Kgs 3:17
    67%

    17One of them said, 'My lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was there with me.'

  • Matt 1:1
    66%

    1This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

  • 1 Chr 14:3-4
    2 verses
    66%

    3David took more wives in Jerusalem, and he had more sons and daughters.

    4These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon.

  • 1 Chr 4:14
    66%

    14Meonothai fathered Ophrah, and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-Harashim, for they were craftsmen.

  • Ruth 4:3
    66%

    3Then Boaz said to the kinsman-redeemer, 'The portion of the field that belonged to our relative Elimelech is being sold by Naomi, who has returned from the land of Moab.'

  • Ruth 2:5-6
    2 verses
    66%

    5Boaz asked the servant who was in charge of the harvesters, "Whose young woman is this?"

    6The servant replied, "She is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.

  • Ruth 1:22
    66%

    22So Naomi returned from the fields of Moab, accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

  • Isa 8:3
    66%

    3I approached the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The Lord said to me, "Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz (Swift to Plunder, Quick to Spoil)."

  • 2 Sam 12:24
    66%

    24Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. She gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. The Lord loved him,

  • 1 Chr 4:6
    66%

    6Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari; these were the descendants of Naarah.