Ruth 4:11

Boaz Redeems Ruth

¹⁰ I will also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to perpetuate the deceased man’s name on his property, so that his name will not disappear among his relatives or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.” ¹¹ The elders and all the people who were at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built the house of Israel. May you be powerful in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem. ¹² May your house become like the house of Perez, the son Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the Lord will give you by this young woman.”

Build the House

House of Israel

We are Witnesses

Beth-lehem

Bethlehem

Ephratah

Israel

Jehovah

Leah

Rachel

Ruth

Deuteronomy 25:9

then his sister-in-law will go up to him in the sight of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she will declare, ‘This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

Genesis 29:32-24

Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben, for she said, “The Lord has seen my affliction; surely my husband will love me now.”

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah, saying to her:

Our sister, may you become
thousands upon ten thousands.
May your offspring possess
the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 35:16-20

They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

Genesis 46:8-27

These are the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt:

Jacob’s firstborn: Reuben.

Numbers 26:1-65

After the plague, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,

Ruth 1:2

The man’s name was Elimelech, and his wife’s name was Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They entered the land of Moab and settled there.

Psalm 127:3-5

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord,
children, a reward.

Psalm 128:3-6

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house,
your sons, like young olive trees
around your table.

Psalm 132:6

We heard of the ark in Ephrathah;
we found it in the fields of Jaar.

Proverbs 14:1

Every wise woman builds her house,
but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Micah 5:2

Bethlehem Ephrathah,
you are small among the clans of Judah;
One will come from you
to be ruler over Israel for Me.
His origin is from antiquity,
from eternity.

Matthew 2:6

And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the leaders of Judah:
because out of you will come a leader
who will shepherd My people Israel.”