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Ruth 1 · Grade 5

Your God My God

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Read and Think

The opening words connect Ruth to Judges: In the days when the judges judged. While Israel did what was right in its own eyes, a quiet story unfolded in one family from Bethlehem Judah. Famine drove Elimelech to Moab, where his sons Mahlon and Chilion married Orpah and Ruth. Within about ten years, Naomi lost her husband and both sons.

Hearing that Yahweh had visited His people in giving them bread, Naomi set out for home with her daughters-in-law. Three times she urged them to return. She blessed them, asking Yahweh to grant them rest, each in the house of a husband, and she argued that she had no hope of sons for them. She said Yahweh's hand had gone out against her. Orpah kissed her and went back to her people and her god.

Ruth refused. Her words are among the most famous in Scripture: Where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. She bound herself with an oath in Yahweh's name, so a Moabite woman now trusted Israel's God. In Bethlehem, Naomi asked to be called Mara, saying the Almighty had dealt very bitterly with her; she went out full and came home empty. Yet the chapter closes with two signs of hope: Ruth beside her, and the beginning of barley harvest.

Show What You Know

  1. How do the opening words connect Ruth to Judges?

  2. How many times did Naomi urge them to return?

  3. What did Naomi ask Yahweh to grant them?

  4. In whose name did Ruth make her oath?

  5. What two signs of hope close the chapter?

Crossword

52431

Across

  1. The country where the family moved
  2. The name Naomi asked to be called

Down

  1. Why the family left Bethlehem
  2. Elimelech's wife
  3. She kissed Naomi and went back

Think About It

  1. Ruth left her own people and gods to follow Yahweh. What does it cost to follow God fully?

  2. In the same dark days as Judges, God was working in one family. How can God be at work in quiet places when the world seems dark?

Memory Verse

Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for 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 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for friends who stay with me. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • Where do you see small signs that God was already at work for Naomi?
  • What would it look like for you to choose God the way Ruth did?
  • What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

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