1. Who was she (Ruth 1:3-4)? ( Moabites, descendent of Lot—Gen. 19:36-37; Neh. 13:1-3)

2. What was the name of her husband (Ruth 4: 10)?

A. About how long were they married (Ruth 1:4-5)?

B. Who was her well-known mother-in-law (Ruth 1:2)?

C. What was her first sad experience (Ruth 1:5a)?

3. Did Ruth return to her people, after her husband died (Ruth 1:14)?

A. Where did she want to go (Ruth 1:16-17)?

B. What was the supreme test of her faith in God (Ruth 1:8-9)?

4. When did Naomi and Ruth arrive in Bethlehem (Ruth 1:22)?

A. Where did Ruth want to go and why (Ruth 2:2)?

B. In whose field did she want to gather (Ruth 2:3, Deut. 24:19-22)?

C. What instruction had God given to reapers of any field (Lev. 19:9, 10)?

D. What did Boaz’ servants have to say of her (Ruth 2:5-7)?

5. Boaz told Ruth to gather on his field only. What was her reaction (Ruth 2:10)?

A. How did she find favor with Boaz (Ruth 2:11)?

B. Who was to recompense Ruth for her deeds (Ruth 2:12)?

6. Ruth was invited to eat with Boaz’s servants. For whom did she save food (Ruth 2:18)?

A. To whom did Ruth give report of all things that happened (Ruth 2:19)?

B. What did Naomi want to do for her daughter-in-law (Ruth 3:1)?

C. Did Ruth obey her words (Ruth 3:2-5)?

D. What did Ruth do (Ruth 3:6-8)?

E. How did Ruth identify herself (Ruth 3:9)?

7. What did Boaz say that she was called by people and why (Ruth 3:11)?

A. Where did Ruth lie until morning (Ruth 3:14a)?

B. What did Boaz ask Ruth do, before light (Ruth 3:14b)?

C. What did Ruth tell Naomi upon her return (Ruth 3:16-17)?

8. Who was purchased to be Boaz’ wife (Ruth 4:13)?

9. At the gate of the city, how did Boaz seek to redeem the inheritance (Ruth 4:1-5)?

A. What prevented the nearest kinsman from redeeming it (Ruth 4:6)?

B. *Now tell how Boaz redeemed it (Ruth 4:7-10).

C. *Relate the law that governed this procedure (Deut. 25:5-10)?

D. What benediction did the court pronounce upon Boaz (Ruth 4:11, 12)?

10. What was said of Ruth by other women (Ruth 4:15)?

11. What benediction is pronounced upon Naomi (Ruth 4:14, 15)?

12. Name the son Ruth bore Boaz (Ruth 4:17)?

A. Whose grandfather was he (Ruth 4:17)?

B. In whose lineage was Obed (Matt. 1:5, 16)?

POINTS TO CONSIDER:

1. What do you think of Naomi as a mother-in-law?

2. What may be said of Ruth as a daughter-in-law (Ruth 2:11; Ruth 4:15b)?

3. What do you think of her purity of life (Ruth 3:10)?

4. What do you think of her willingness to work?

5. What does the Apostle Paul say of idle women (1 Tim. 5:13)?

6. Show how she was ever true to her immortal saying (Ruth 1:16-17).

–Beth Johnson