The Bible Redemption

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Throughout The Bible redemption is a reoccurring theme that is often seen with characters. This passage of The Bible concentrates on two main female characters, Naomi and Ruth. Naomi moved to the country of Moab with her husband Elimelech, and two sons, Mahlon and Kilion. Elimelech died, and Naomi was left with her two sons, who took Moabite wives, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After about 10 years, Mahlon and Kilion also died resulting in Naomi losing both her husband and her sons. After hearing that her home town had passed the famine she had no reason not to return. She told her daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. May the Lord show kindness to you, as you have shown to your dead and to me. May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband” (verse 8-9). Orpah was convinced by Naomi’s plea, and tearfully kissed her mother-in-law goodbye. Whereas Ruth pleaded with Naomi, “Don’t urge me to leave you, or turn back from you” (Ruth 1:16)
Ruth was both poor and an alien. She did not return to her own people and gods, but chose Naomi’s people and her God. In what could be one of the most well-known passages from The Bible, Ruth pledged to Naomi, “Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. You people will be my people and …show more content…

And she gladly encouraged Ruth to continue to glean in Boaz’s field. Eventually this lead to the marriage between Ruth and Boaz, because he wasn’t worried or ashamed about marrying a foreigner or losing his inheritance rights to his future generations. Ruth and Boaz ended up having a son together, and Naomi sees it as redemption for her and her family and also for Ruth. She sees their son as her own and a message of redemption from God and now that she can finally be happy and can forgive and trust in God completely and

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