Ruth 4:17

World English Bible (2000)

The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "There is a son born to Naomi;" and they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

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  • Luke 1:58-63 : 58 Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her. 59 It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father. 60 His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be called John." 61 They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name." 62 They made signs to his father, what he would have him called. 63 He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marveled.

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    11All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

    12Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman."

    13So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son.

    14The women said to Naomi, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel.

    15He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him."

    16Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

  • Ruth 4:21-22
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    21and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,

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

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

    12and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse;

    13and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,

    14Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

  • Matt 1:5-6
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    73%

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

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

    38and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,

  • Luke 3:31-32
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    31the son of Melea, the son of Menan, 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
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    18Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,

  • Ruth 1:19
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    19So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and [the women] said, "Is this Naomi?"

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    1It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

    2The 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 Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

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

    4They took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they lived there about ten years.

  • 1 Sam 17:12
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    12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.

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

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    19His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered. When she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her.

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  • 2 Kgs 4:17
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    17The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.

  • Ruth 2:19-20
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    19Her mother-in-law said to her, "Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you." She showed her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz."

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  • Ruth 1:11-12
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    11Naomi said, "Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

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    6Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.

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    9Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband." Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

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    1Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

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    5Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, "Whose young lady is this?"

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