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Ruth
"Where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God."
— Ruth 1:16 
The Reading LensEvery verse pulled to the top of a book is chosen by three questions: Where is God’s heart here? Who is He protecting? Who is being saved by the action? It marks the place where those answers come into clearest focus — a “look at this, in this book.”
About the Book
Ruth is a quiet love story set during the chaos of the Judges — a Moabite widow who refuses to abandon her grieving mother-in-law, and the kinsman-redeemer who takes her in. Against a backdrop of national failure, it is four chapters of ordinary covenant faithfulness.
The hero verse is Ruth's vow — loyalty freely given, and a foreigner choosing Israel's God as her own. The outsider becomes the great-grandmother of King David, and an ancestor of Jesus. Mercy and belonging run straight through the bloodline.
4 Chapters
Where You Go, I Will Go
Start HereFamine, loss, and Ruth's vow to cling to Naomi and to Naomi's God.
“Your people will be my people, and your God my God.” — v.16
Ruth Gleans in Boaz's Field
A widow gathering grain meets a kind and noble landowner.
Ruth at the Threshing Floor
Naomi's plan, and Ruth's appeal to the kinsman-redeemer.
Boaz Redeems Ruth
The redemption secured; their son becomes grandfather to David.