Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful

that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hi, everyone. Welcome back to a year in the

Bible. My name is Beth, and I'm here with my co-host Alexa. Hi, friends. So today,

we're going to be going deeper into the Old Testament passage, which we annotated yesterday,

which is Ruth 4, 14 through 15. So Alexa, can you start us off by showing us where this passage

fits in the overall biblical story? For sure. So the book of Ruth takes place during the time of judges.

We see that in the first verse of Ruth. And I remember learning that for the first time and having

my mind blown a little bit. I knew the story of Ruth, but I never heard it taught that her story

takes place during the time of judges. So it's just amazing to think about what God was doing through

Ruth and her circumstances during the time of judges, a time in which Israel was just struggling

in their worship to the Lord. Ruth 1-1 tells us that during this time of the judges, there was a

famine. And the study day today in the Christ's all scripture study goes into the context of what's happening in Ruth.

So I'll just keep it pretty brief.

But essentially, a man leaves Bethlehem with his wife and sons to stay in Moab.

Their sons marry Moab woman.

And eventually those sons and the father die.

So Naomi, the wife of the husband, who left Bethlehem, is left with her daughters-in-law,

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