Ruth 4:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

And the women her neighbours gaue it a name, saying, There is a childe borne to Naomi, and called the name thereof Obed: the same was the father of Ishai, the father of Dauid.

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  • Luke 1:58-63 : 58 And her neighbours, and cousins heard tell howe the Lorde had shewed his great mercie vpon her, and they reioyced with her. 59 And it was so that on the eight day they came to circumcise the babe, and called him Zacharias after the name of his father. 60 But his mother answered, and saide, Not so, but he shalbe called Iohn. 61 And they saide vnto her, There is none of thy kindred, that is named with this name. 62 Then they made signes to his father, howe he would haue him called. 63 So hee asked for writing tables, and wrote, saying, His name is Iohn, and they marueiled all.

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  • Ruth 4:11-16
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    11And all the people that were in the gate, and the Elders sayd, We are witnesses: the Lorde make the wife that commeth into thine house, like Rahel and like Leah, which twaine did build the house of Israel: & that thou mayest doe worthily in Ephrathah, & be famous in Beth-lehem,

    12And that thine house be like the house of Pharez ( whom Thamar bare vnto Iudah) of the seede which the Lord shall giue thee of this yong woman.

    13So Boaz tooke Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in vnto her, the Lorde gaue that she conceiued, and bare a sonne.

    14And the women sayd vnto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, and his name shalbe continued in Israel.

    15And this shall bring thy life againe, and cherish thine olde age: for thy daughter in lawe which loueth thee, hath borne vnto him, and she is better to thee then seuen sonnes.

    16And Naomi tooke the childe, and layde it in her lap, and became nource vnto it.

  • Ruth 4:21-22
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    21And Salmon begate Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

    22And Obed begate Ishai, and Ishai begate Dauid.

  • 1 Chr 2:11-14
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    11And Nahshon begate Salma, and Salma begate Boaz,

    12And Boaz begate Obed, and Obed begate Ishai,

    13And Ishai begate his eldest sonne Eliab, & Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,

    14Nathaneel the fourth, Raddai the fift,

  • Matt 1:5-6
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    5And Salmon begate Booz of Rachab; Booz begat Obed of Ruth; Obed begat Iesse.

    6And Iesse begate Dauid the King; Dauid the King begate Solomon of her that was the wife of Vrias.

  • 1 Chr 2:37-38
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    37And Zabad begate Ephlal, and Ephlal begate Obed,

    38And Obed begate Iehu, and Iehu begate Azariah,

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    31The sonne of Melea, the sonne of Mainan, the sonne of Mattatha, the sonne of Nathan, the sonne of Dauid,

    32The sonne of Iesse, the sonne of Obed, the sonne of Booz, the sonne of Salmon, the sonne of Naasson,

  • Ruth 4:18
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    18These now are ye generations of Pharez: Pharez begate Hezron,

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    19So they went both vntill they came to Beth-lehem: and when they were come to Beth-lehem, it was noysed of them through all the citie, and they said, Is not this Naomi?

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    1In the time that the Iudges ruled, there was a dearth in the lande, and a man of Beth-lehem Iudah went for to soiourne in the countrey of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sonnes.

    2And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi: and the names of his two sonnes, Mahlon, and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem Iudah: and when they came into the land of Moab, they continued there.

    3Then Elimelech the husbande of Naomi died, and she remayned with her two sonnes,

    4Which tooke them wiues of the Moabites: the ones name was Orpah, & the name of ye other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten yeeres.

  • 1 Sam 17:12
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    12Nowe this Dauid was the sonne of an Ephrathite of Beth-lehem Iudah, named Ishai, which had eight sonnes: and this man was taken for an olde man in the daies of Saul.

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    1Then Naomis husband had a kinsman, one of great power of the familie of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

  • 1 Sam 4:19-20
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    19And his daughter in lawe Phinehas wife was with childe neere her trauell: and when she heard the report that the Arke of God was taken, and that her father in lawe and her husband were dead, she bowed her selfe, and trauailed: for her paines came vpon her.

    20And about the time of her death, the women that stoode about her, sayd vnto her, Feare not: for thou hast borne a sonne: but she answered not, nor regarded it.

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    17So the woman conceiued, & bare a sonne at that same season, according to the time of life, that Elisha had sayd vnto her.

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  • Ruth 1:11-12
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  • Ruth 1:6-7
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    6Then she arose with her daughters in law, and returned from the countrey of Moab: for she had heard say in the countrey of Moab, that the Lord had visited his people, and giuen them bread.

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    9The Lorde graunt you, that you may finde rest, either of you in the house of her husbande; when she kissed them, they lift vp their voice and wept.

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