Hey, this is Shelby and CJ.

We're walking through the Bible in a year.

We just wrapped up the book of judges, and now we're in the book of Ruth.

CJ, you told me this is your favorite book by far in the Old Testament.

So I cannot wait to have you walk us through this book.

Let's get started.

Okay, great.

So we're in Ruth 1-1, and Ruth 1-1 tells us that the story takes place when the judges judged.

So in other words, right after judges, we have sort of like a little separate story

that's happening while all this chaos is happening in the

book of judges. And if you remember how we described Joshua as positive and judges as negative,

were then given even a foil to judges, which is then Ruth, which is positive or a positive

spin on the book of judges, okay? And one of my teachers compared Ruth to one of those music mashups.

The one that he used was like heavy metal instrumentation, like nine inch nails or

metallic or just think of like the like heavy metal music or something with like Katie

Perry pop music lyrics like over the top. Yeah. So it's like underneath it is the book of judges and all this chaos, but above it is this very lighthearted, positive song. And that's sort of the book of Ruth. Okay. I love it. Well, let's get into it. Ruth one, well, really, we're reading through the whole book today. So let's get into the whole book of Ruth.

So Ruth 1 describes a famine in the land of Israel and a man from Bethlehem of Judah.

Obviously, as Christians were keying into Bethlehem of Judah.

He sojourns in the land of Moab to find food.

And his two sons take Moabite wives.

They take foreign wives.

Okay. And then the man and his two sons die,

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