Ruth 4:18-20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ruth 4:13-22

Here is, I. Ruth a wife. Boaz took her, with the usual solemnities, to his house, and she became his wife (Ruth 4:13), all the city, no doubt, congratulating the preferment of a virtuous woman, purely for her virtues. We have reason to think that Orpah, who returned from Naomi to her people and her gods, was never half so well preferred as Ruth was. He that forsakes all for Christ shall find more than all with him; it shall be recompensed a hundred-fold in this present time. Now Orpah wished... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ruth 4:18

Now these are the generations of Pharez ,.... The son of Judah, by Tamar before mentioned, 4:12 , for the intention of this genealogy is to confirm the truth of Jacob's prophecy, of Shiloh the Messiah coming from the tribe of Judah, Genesis 49:10 and therefore it begins with Pharez, well known to be the son of Judah, and ends with David, whose son the Messiah was to be, as is owned by all Jews and Gentiles that believe the divine revelation: Pharez begat Hezron ; who was one of those... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ruth 4:19

And Hezron begat Ram ,.... Called Aram by the Septuagint, and so in Matthew 1:3 , and Ram begat Amminadab ; in whose name there is no variation, neither in the book of Chronicles nor in the Evangelists; both these, as well as the next, were born in Egypt. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ruth 4:20

And Amminadab begat Nahshon ,.... The prince of the tribe of Judah, as the Targum adds; and so he was when the Israelites were come out of Egypt, and were in the wilderness at the time of the dedication of the altar, Numbers 7:12 called Nahsson, Matthew 1:4 , and Nahshon begat Salmon; or, as in the Hebrew text, Salmah, and in 1 Chronicles 2:11 , Salma; and yet in the verse following Salmon, as we read it. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 4:18

Now these are the generations - The Targum gives a copious paraphrase on this and the following verses, I shall insert the principal parts in their proper places. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 4:19

Hezron begat Ram - He is called Aram here by the Septuagint, and also by St. Matthew, Matthew 1:3 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 4:20

Amminadab begat Nahshon - The Targum adds, "And Nahshon was chief of the house of his father in the tribe of Judah." Nahshon begat Salmon - In the Hebrew it is שלמה Salmah , which Houbigant thinks was an error of an ancient scribe, before any final letters were acknowledged in the Hebrew alphabet: for then the word would be written שלמון Salmon , which a scribe, after final letters were admitted, might mistake for שלמה Salmah , and so write it, instead of שלמון ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ruth 4:13-22

Little Obed. A birth, and in particular a first birth, in the homes of the "excellent of the earth" is always an interesting and exciting event. What multitudes of beginnings there are in childhood! What multitudes of buds and beautiful rose-buddings! What possibilities and uncertainties! What wonderful littlenesses of hands and feet, and other organs, all so marvelously harmonized and complete! What wondrous and wondering eyes, looking, and still looking, as if they would really read your... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ruth 4:18-22

And these are the lineal descendants of Pharez. Pharez begat Hezron, and Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, and Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David. This is the genealogy of King David, and it is therefore an integral part of the genealogy of King David's great descendant, his "Lord" and ours. As such it is incorporated entire in the two tables that are contained respectively in the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ruth 4:18-22

The lineage of David. This book closes with a genealogy. Readers of the Scriptures may sometimes have felt perplexed at the frequency with which genealogical tables occur both in the Old Testament and in the New. There is a sufficient reason for this. I. SCRIPTURE SANCTIONS THE INTEREST HUMAN NATURE FEELS IN GENEALOGY . No one is insensible to his own ancestry, especially if among his progenitors have bee: men of eminence. Interest in ancestry may be carried too far,... read more

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