Ruth 1:1 Part 2 of 2

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.

 

there was a famine in the land

2 Kings 8:1  Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, [2 Kings 4:8-37] "Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the LORD has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years."   

Haggai1:9-11  "You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares the LORD Almighty. "Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house. Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands." 

 

So a man from Bethlehem in Judah 

Genesis 35:19  So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem) .

Genesis 48:7  "As I [Israel/Jacob] was returning from Paddan to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath" (that is Bethlehem).

Ruth 1:19  So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?"

1 Samuel 17:12  Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul's time he was very old. 

Micah 5:2  "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from old, from ancient times."

John 7:42  "Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David's descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?"

together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab 

Genesis 19:37  The older daughter [of Lot] had a son and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today.

Numbers 22:1  Then the Israelites traveled to the plains of Moab and camped along the Jordan across from Jericho.

Judges 3:30  That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.

Ruth 1:6  When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.

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