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September 29, 2026 - Ruth 1 & Proverbs 16:17-20 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the later lady.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Tuesday, September 29th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ruth one.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem and Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
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  SPEAKER_01: The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Maulon and Kileon.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were Ephraitites from Bethlehem and Judah.
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  SPEAKER_01: They went into the country of Moab and remained there.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons.
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  SPEAKER_01: These took Moabite wives.
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  SPEAKER_01: The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth.
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  SPEAKER_01: They lived there about ten years.
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  SPEAKER_01: And both Malon and Kileon died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then she arose with her daughter-in-laws to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food.
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  SPEAKER_01: So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house.
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  SPEAKER_01: May the Lord deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they said to her, No, we will return with you to your people.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Naomi said, Turn back, my daughters, why will you go with me?
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  SPEAKER_01: Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?
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  SPEAKER_01: Turn back, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband.
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  SPEAKER_01: If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons, would you therefore wait till they were grown?
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  SPEAKER_01: Would you therefore refrain from marrying?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake, that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then they lifted up their voices and wept again.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her, and she said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods.
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  SPEAKER_01: Return after your sister-in-law.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Ruth said, Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you, for for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried.
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  SPEAKER_01: May the Lord do so to me, and more also if anything but death parts me from you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem.
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  SPEAKER_01: When they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the women said, Is this Naomi?
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  SPEAKER_01: She said to them, Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitter bitterly with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why call me Naomi when the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?
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  SPEAKER_01: So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned from the country of Moab, and they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
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  SPEAKER_01: Proverbs sixteen, seventeen through twenty.
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  SPEAKER_01: The highway of the upright turns aside from evil.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever guards his way preserves his life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now Ruth is one of my favorite books in all of the Bible, particularly in the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_01: The story of Ruth is such an incredible story.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in fact, as we go through this, I want you to see how this story points us forward to anticipate Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: That'll really become increasingly clear, but specifically in Ruth chapter four.
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  SPEAKER_01: So a very short book, only four chapters.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a very compelling story.
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  SPEAKER_01: We see a lot of different themes kind of being woven together.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of them is just the theme of God's providence.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're going to see that, especially beginning in chapter two, that we'll get to tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: But God's providence is on display.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's grace, his mercy is on display.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even his faithfulness to his promises is on display.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, that'll become increasingly clear in Ruth chapter four, and how the story kind of wraps up in the genealogy that is listed there, the brief one at the end of the book.
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  SPEAKER_01: But here in Ruth 1, one thing to notice, especially on the heels of judges, is the setting of this story.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says in verse 1, in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now remember, we just got done reading the book of Judges.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, when the judges were ruling, was a dark time in Israel's history.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, this is a stain on their history.
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  SPEAKER_01: This this is a stain on their character.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is just really a record of their rebellion.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so in the days, and in the midst of dark days in Israel's history, in the midst of their rebellion, in the midst of bloodshed and just horrendous, unethical, immoral actions and pursuits on the part of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even we see at the beginning, the opening verse of Ruth, God is still at work.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's the backdrop.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's helpful context.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep that in your mind as you read through Ruth.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is happening when chaos is going on in Israel, when there's false priests, uh, when there's judges who are violating God's commands, uh, when even there are uh uh people, the the people of Israel, it says in chapter 20, that set themselves against the tribe of Benjamin, and they they kill off so many of the Benjaminites that chapter 21, they're so fearful uh that that tribe is actually gonna be extinguished altogether.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's just so many things.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's murder happening, there's kidnapping, I mean, all kinds of stuff in the book of Judges.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what you're gonna see here in Ruth, in a sense, is a snapshot that in the midst of that darkness, in the midst of that chaos, God is still at work.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, for the characters here in Ruth, they are experiencing a kind of darkness themselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says, in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, which, by the way, one thing that you should note about the Old Testament is famine often is associated with God's judgment.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you could even see very naturally why there would be famine in the land of Israel in the time period of the judges, because of how, again, rebellious they were being during this time.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so there was a man of Bethlehem in Judah who went to sojourn in the country of Moab.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, the Moabites were not following God, they did not worship the Lord, they did not honor the Lord, they were a pagan nation that worshipped pagan gods.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so this is a man, Elimelech is his name, that takes his family away from his clan, away from the tribe of Judah, away from God's people, away from the tabernacle where he's supposed to be offering sacrifices, uh, or at least gifting them to the priest that so that the priest could offer them on his behalf.
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  SPEAKER_01: Instead, what they're doing is that they are going to another country.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're going to another nation, another nation that is not honoring the Lord and that does not worship the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: So even that we can see as perhaps an act of rebellion on the part of this family, that they're fleeing to a pagan nation.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it says there was a famine in the land, and the man of Bethlehem and Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
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  SPEAKER_01: The name of the man was Elimelech.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the man who ultimately took his family to Moab.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the name of his wife, Naomi, she's going to be one of the main characters.
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  SPEAKER_01: Her and Ruth and their relationship will be one of the through lines through this story.
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  SPEAKER_01: So make sure that you remember Naomi.
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  SPEAKER_01: By the way, the the name Naomi, and this will become increasingly uh more important in this chapter, particularly.
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  SPEAKER_01: The name Naomi means like happy or or pleasant, pleasing, that kind of thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, so keep that in your mind for a second.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Malon and Kiliam.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, they were Ephraithes from Bethlehem in Judah, and they went in the country of Moab and remained there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Elimelech, the story starts uh really heavy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh he, the husband of Naomi, he died.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Naomi loses her husband, and she was left with her two sons.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those two sons, Malon and Kileon, they took two Moabite wives.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of them was Orpah, and the other is Ruth, of course, which this book is named after.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, they lived there about 10 years.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the two sons of Elimelech.
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  SPEAKER_01: Elimelech ends up passing away.
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  SPEAKER_01: So then there's Naomi, the two sons, Malon and Kileon, they have their two wives, uh Orpah and Ruth.
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  SPEAKER_01: And here, even in verse 5, both Malon and Kileon died.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we have Naomi who's lost not only her husband, but she's lost her two sons.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it says, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the backdrop is judges, chaos, even a sense of judgment happening on the part of the nation of Israel, signified by a famine.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was a famine in the land.
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  SPEAKER_01: This family led by Elimelech goes to a foreign pagan country that worship pagan gods, their two sons, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Malon and Kilion marry foreign wives, which was not allowed.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh one is Orpa, one is Ruth.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so there's all these things happening, and then Malon and Killian ultimately ended up dying.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we find Naomi at the beginning of this story in a place where many of us could, of course, sympathize with.
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  SPEAKER_01: She is hurting.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, her husband's dead, her two sons are dead.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, she has lost much.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so there then there's this story, this recounting of um the two daughters-in-law wanting to cling to Naomi, and there's this kind of back and forth, back and forth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ultimately, Orpah turns around and goes back to her house, uh, her family's house, but Ruth uh does not.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ruth chooses to stay with Naomi.
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  SPEAKER_01: In fact, in verse 16, Ruth said, Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you.
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  SPEAKER_01: For where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, many commentators, and I would fall on this side as well, see in this language not only just Ruth being a woman of great character who wants to take care of her mother-in-law, who has lost her husband and her two sons, but also seems to there seems to be this idea of even Ruth's repentance where she's turning.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if it was the situation, losing her husband.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if just even hearing that the stories of perhaps the God of Israel that maybe her husband or her in-laws were telling the her, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it seems like she's not just clinging to Naomi, that Ruth is also she's promising and vowing, your people shall be my people, the people of Israel, and your God, the one true God of Israel, will be my God, she says, Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried.
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  SPEAKER_01: May the Lord, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So now she's invoking the name of the Lord, and it's it's all caps, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: This is Yahweh.
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  SPEAKER_01: May the Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts me from you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's this beautiful uh sense of commitment that Ruth has to Naomi, her mother-in-law, both to care for her, uh to love her, uh, to be with her, but also there's a sense in which she's committing herself to Naomi's God, the one true God of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so then again, she invokes his name, may the Lord do to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And more also, if anything but death parts me from you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, one thing just to note is that Naomi is not doing well, uh, especially in chapter one.
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  SPEAKER_01: She really doesn't do well.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, a lot of what she says is not great uh until chapter three.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's kind of a turnaround in chapter three, but we'll get there here.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of the ways that we can see that she's not doing well, not just from a grieving perspective from losing her husband and her two sons, but she's also, I mean, just think about what happens.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's got this exchange with Ruth and Orpah, and she's encouraging them to go back to their families.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, on the one hand, you kind of think to yourself, this feels maybe selfless.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe she's thinking about the best interest of her daughters-in-laws.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe she she truly thinks this would be good for them, and there's a sincerity, and perhaps perhaps there was, but certainly it was misguided.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, because when Orpa does end up turning around um and and leaving, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Orpah kissed her mother-in-law and leaves.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Naomi says something really telling in verse 15.
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  SPEAKER_01: She said, See, she's talking to Ruth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your sister-in-law Orpah has gone back to her people, and here's something interesting, and to her gods.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Naomi's in this place where she hopefully recognizes she grew up, she's a part of the nation of Israel, she knows the one true God, she's heard the stories of Exodus, she's heard uh the reality of who this God is, his faithfulness, his mercy, his steadfast love.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yet he uh she denies her daughter-in-law from coming with her, and in fact, just it seems willingly, and maybe even, I don't know, gladly, that may not be fair to say, uh, but sends Orpha back, not just to her people, but it says, and to her gods.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then she goes further and says, Ruth, you do the same.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go back to your gods, go back to your people.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she's literally turning her daughters-in-law away from God.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's in this place of blaming God, she's in this place of hurting, which she even she said, uh, you know, she's gonna say it here in just a second, uh, when she goes to returns to Bethlehem and she gets noticed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but that's just one way that we can see that Naomi is having this a really sinful kind of response.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's she's turning away her daughters-in-law again, not just sending them back to their family, but even intentionally sending them back to their false gods.
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  SPEAKER_01: So then the story continues.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ruth has this kind of it seems genuine repentance, this this beautiful commitment that she makes to Naomi.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then so the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when they came to Bethlehem, which by the way, if you translate the the word Bethlehem, it means house of bread.
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  SPEAKER_01: So all of this is gonna be intentional.
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  SPEAKER_01: The names are intentional, where they're going, why they're going, the famine, all of it's gonna connect.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem.
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  SPEAKER_01: When they came, when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the women said, Is this Naomi?
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  SPEAKER_01: She said to them, Now, the question is not because, you know, it's not like she's been gone so long that she's unrecognizable because of age.
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  SPEAKER_01: There could be some aspect to that, but really that this has more of an indication of her grief is is so visibly present in the way that she's carrying herself and the way that her uh perhaps she's uh her facial expression expressions that she's uh expressing to to the people that she is seeing, that she's almost unrecognizable because of what's happened to her in the state that she's in.
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  SPEAKER_01: And her response again is telling.
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  SPEAKER_01: She said to them, Do not call me Naomi, which again means happy or pleasant.
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  SPEAKER_01: She says, Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Mara is from the book of Exodus.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you remember, uh God delivers the people of Israel from slavery and bondage to the Egyptians.
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  SPEAKER_01: They get out into the wilderness, and there's several scenes and episodes of them complaining, complaining, complaining, complaining.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of them has to do with water, and one of them uh is called, the place is called Mara, and it's it's about bitter water, uh, about their bitterness and their their complaining and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I think it's Exodus 15.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking about that off the top of my head, but I think it's Exodus 15.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is a callback uh to a time period in Israel's history where they were giving given over to complaining and grumbling in the wilderness because they felt like God was not treating them fairly, which is why she says, Don't call me Naomi, pleasant, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you can see that Naomi's, again, she's she's not doing well.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's grieving, of course, which we sympathize with, but she's tried to sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: She did send Orpah back to not just her family, but false gods.
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  SPEAKER_01: She tried to persuade Ruth to do the same.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ruth, of course, overcame that through seems genuine repentance and a trust in uh this god that she's heard about, uh, seemingly from her husband or perhaps uh her in-laws.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so now Naomi, she is so filled with grief, she's almost unrecognizable.
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  SPEAKER_01: The women are like, Who is this?
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  SPEAKER_01: And she says, Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt me, dealt very bitterly with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I always like to just kind of summarize this in a memorable way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Naomi literally says, Don't call me by my name, call me by my pain.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's literally what she says here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then she continues to just kind of lay it on thick and blaming God.
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  SPEAKER_01: She says, I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why call me Naomi?
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  SPEAKER_01: Why call me pleasant and happy when the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?
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  SPEAKER_01: So Naomi returned.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's this heavy, difficult situation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Naomi's not doing great, and Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is the key phrase here, and they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now that's important because think of that as just like a glimmer of light peeking through the shadows, where the beginning of barley harvest, the provisions on the horizon, things potentially.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I know the story of Ruth, and if you've read it, you do too.
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  SPEAKER_01: But things are there's a there's a sense of the the author of Ruth puts that in there just to kind of from a literary perspective say hey, hope is is um present.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hope is is not coming, uh, but but God's going to provide in that sense, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
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  SPEAKER_01: So sorry to to be a little bit longer today on on Ruth one, but I love the book of Ruth.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's such a great story.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, really, the the things here that we need to remember, Elimelech leads his family to a pagan nation, Moab.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, their two sons, Malon and Kileon, marry foreign wives, Orpah and Ruth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Orpah gets sent back by Naomi.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, she's not doing well, both to her family and to her false gods.
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  SPEAKER_01: Naomi tries to do the same with Ruth, but Ruth overcomes that and says, No, your people will be my people, your gods will be my, or your god will be my god.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so she clings to uh Naomi, she uh which by the way is no benefit to her, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Naomi, uh in in this sense, uh not to be crass, but is dead weight to to Ruth, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: She she provides nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even Naomi kind of tries to explain that, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't have more sons, even if there was a son in my womb today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are we gonna wait around until they're old enough for you to marry?
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  SPEAKER_01: So, in a in a real sense, there's nothing that Naomi can do to Ruth, which makes her commitment to her all that more much uh all the more precious, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so then here we see uh they actually end up getting back home to Bethlehem, the house of bread, and uh they are um being greeted by the women of the town who are looking at Naomi, and she's so just grief-stricken.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's written all over her face, it's it's affecting her posture that she's unrecognizable.
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  SPEAKER_01: She says, Don't call me by my name, call me by my pain.
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  SPEAKER_01: She blames God uh just for everything that's happened in in her life, and and then it ends by saying, and all this took place at the beginning of barley harvest, which again is just the glimmer of hope uh on the horizon for the reader as we continue to work through the book uh of Ruth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, as we look quickly here to the Proverbs, we see in verse 17, the highway of the upright turns aside from evil.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever guards his way preserves his life.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, of course, the highway of the upright, where we're committed to fearing the Lord, doing what he says, obeying his commands, you can see why that would lead to towards turning away from evil and a sense of you being preserved uh in your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And here perhaps is one of the most famous verses in all of Proverbs, Proverbs 16, 18.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just a great reminder that our our pride, God opposes the proud, he gives grace to the humble.
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  SPEAKER_01: And here we see that pride goes before destruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh and the next verse in verse 19 it is better to be of lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh kind of a parallel to what we just read in verse 18.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then finally, in verse 20, whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is kind of reminiscent for me of Psalm 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: The blessed person meditates on God's law a day and night, and they are like a tree planted by rivers of water that are fruitful, and all that they do, they prosper, and their leaf does not wither.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.