Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
Ruth
Bible References
Wives
Deuteronomy 7:3
And thou shalt make no marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor take his daughter for thy son;
Deuteronomy 23:3
An Ammonite or Moabite shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah; even their tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah for ever;
1 Kings 11:1
But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites;
Ruth
Matthew 1:5
and Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse,