Ruth 4:18-22

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ruth 4:21

And Salmon begat Boaz ,.... Of Rahab the harlot, whom he married, Matthew 1:5 the very same person that makes a principal part of this book, and whom the Targum here takes to be the judge Ibzan; see Gill on 1:1 . and Boaz begat Obed ; of Ruth; of whom see the preceding verses. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ruth 4:22

And Obed begat Jesse ,.... The Bethlehemite, the father of David: and Jesse begat David ; the Targum adds, the king of Israel; and so the Syriac and Arabic versions add, the king; from whence it is by some concluded that this book was written by Samuel, not only after the birth of David, but after he had been anointed king by him: here being but four generations mentioned, from the coming of the Israelites into Canaan, to the birth of David, which was three hundred and sixty years, each... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 4:21

And Salmon begat Boaz - The Targum goes on, "And Salmon begat Absan the judge; he is Boaz the Just, on account of whose righteousness the people of the house of Israel were redeemed from the hands of their enemies; and at whose supplication the famine departed from the land of Israel." And Boaz begat Obed - "Who served the Lord in this world with a perfect heart." read more

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