Verse 15
15. He shall be That is, the child shall be. Boaz was the goel or redeemer of Ruth but the child Obed was the goel of the aged Naomi.
Restorer of thy life He shall make thee feel the glow of youthful life and joy again.
A nourisher of thine old age A source of comfort, since the birth of this son would take away the reproach of childlessness from her husband’s family.
Better… than seven sons Because through Ruth “the loss of her own sons had been supplied in her old age, and the prospect was now presented to her of becoming in her childless old age the tribe-mother of a numerous and flourishing family.” Keil. “It would seem as if there was already a kind of joyous foretaste of the birth and infancy which, in aftertimes, was to be forever associated with the name of Beth-lehem.” Stanley.
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