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Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee. Ruth 4:17.

“Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee. For where you go, I will go. And where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people and your God shall be my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried” Ruth 1:16-17. IContinue reading “Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee. Ruth 4:17.”

Kinsman-Redeemer.

You sometimes hear it said that Jesus is our kinsman-redeemer.  But what is that? The phrase comes from the book of Ruth.  Naomi and her husband and sons left Israel during a famine and moved to Moab.  In Moab Naomi lost her husband and both sons.  She eventually returned to Israel accompanied only by herContinue reading “Kinsman-Redeemer.”