Bibile Knowledge?

Question

What happens in the book of Ruth of the first three chapters?

I just read it and theres too much biblical language for me to

understand. I'm just 14 and I need a good GPA for high school

and colledge please help.

FIRST OF ALL I just wrote this question in a frantic thats why I spelled bible wrong.

SECOND OF ALL where do you get off poking fun at a child.

THIRD OF ALL we are studying this as a part of a development literature.

FOURTH OF ALL screw anyone that said I should already understand the bible, this version is in its original texts.

Answer 1

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ruth;&version=51;

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=8&chapter=2&version=51

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=8&chapter=3&version=51

try reading it in this version (NLT) it is way easier to understand.... the history of the people of the time is important to try to understand

Answer 2

Actually if you really want to know what the Book of Ruth is about, it's best to learn it from the Jews to whom it belongs, rather than getting an incorrect or somewhat twisted version from the Christian bible. The Christian bible has a lot of things changed from the original Torah.

So here is a good link that describes what is going on in the book of ruth for you. Hope you get that great GPA and I think that is a GREAT goal to already be thinking about your GPA and college, that's awesome. You just keep that up and don't let anyone discourage you.

Here is the link - and that goes for anything in the Torah (or as Christians call it, the "Old" Testament, there are over 30,000 differences between it and the Torah that the Jews still have, so it's really a good idea to learn what things there mean from them, rather than from outsiders who changed it for themselves.

Go to the real source of something, whenever possible, for the most authentic information.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=111916

and here is an audio lecture on it if you can get into that:
http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media.asp?AID=156349

Here is a little on David and his ancestors Boaz and Ruth, just a small bit
http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=463958

Good luck with that GPA! You're a great example for other kids, hope they are paying attention! You'll go far while they flip burgers for a living lol.

Answer 3

hey we're the same age and i think i can answer your question. Naomi is Ruth's mother-in-law and after Naomi and Ruth's husbands die in war Ruth chooses to stay with Naomi when she leaves to go to Bethlehem. In Bethlehem, Ruth is very caring for her "mother" and picks grain for her for food. Boaz is the owner of the grain field and because he likes Ruth he lets her pick all the grain she wants for free. Sorry if it seems a little scrambled but that's the basic story of Ruth 1-3.
In other words, there's blessing in giving or sumthing like that.

Answer 4

it was during a peaceful time in the day of the judges that a family in Bethlehem precipitated the migration of an isrealite couple Elimelech and Naomi to the land of Moab after their two sons had married to Oprah and Ruth the 3 men in the family died Naomi returned home and Ruth insisted on going with her in the course of time Ruth married Boaz

Answer 5

It is important to read it and get the whole story yourself. When we rely on other people to just fill us in, we do not get the whole story most of the time, only their take on what the story is about. Try Biblegateway and you will find versions that are translated directly from the greek and hebrew, like the New Living Translation. It is the easiest by far to understand! I hope you are able to read and understand this story, for it is very rich in culture and faith and loyalty

Answer 6

Um, I'm not sure what having a good GPA for high school & college have to do with reading the first three books of Ruth.

The bible is written on the understanding level of a fifth grader, so at 14, I would think you'd be able to grasp the text. If you really WANT to understand it, you will by God's grace.

Answer 7

You're probably reading the King James translation. Read the Modern King James or the New King James, or if you're really 14 the NIV would be a good choice. It's in modern English. Go to one of these and take a look:
http://blueletterbible.org/links.html
http://www.biblegateway.com/usage/http://biblestudy.churches.net/CCEL/INDEX.HTM

There's others as well.

Answer 8

Ruth
During a famine, a man named Elimelech, and his wife Naomi, and their two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, moved from Bethlehem to Moab. After the death of Elimelech, his sons married two Moabite women named Orpah and Ruth. But their husbands later died and the two women were childless.

Naomi decided to return to Bethlehem and Ruth insisted on joining her, saying "Your people shall be my people, and your God my God" (Ruth 1:16).

In Bethlehem, Ruth met a man named Boaz, who was related to her late father-in-law. Boaz and Ruth got married. (Ruth 4:5). Ruth and Boaz had a son named Obed. Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David. So Ruth was the great-grandmother of King David.

Answer 9

This is homework, you should try to really understand it yourself. Ignore all the people with rude comments!!

Try this site for understanding scripture, it is called Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. This breaks done the passages and comments and explains it phrase by phrase.

This should take you to Ruth -

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/jamieson/jfb.x.viii.i.html

Answer 10

Ok- this is pretty long but it's a basic summary of the first 3 chapters...

There was a woman named Naomi whose husband had died. In those days if a woman's husband died her kids would take care of her. But both of her sons also died so she didn't have anyone to take care of her.
So she and her two daughtes in law (the women who had been married to her sons) went to go back to their hometown in order to get food. Naomi (the mom) told the girls to go back to their parents' houses so they could find new husbands. One of them left her but the other one (Ruth) stayed with Naomi and said that she would never leave her.

When they got back to Naomi's hometown her old friends and family were excited to see her but she was upset and told them that God had made her life bad.

Then the girl, Ruth, went to work in the fields to get the grain that the farmers didn't take and the guy who owned the farm (Boaz) was nice to her and told her she could take as much as she wanted. He told all of the men who worked for him to leave her alone so she wouldn't get messed with. He even let her eat at his house and she took food and grain back to Naomi her mother in law. She kept working in his fields for a while and he was always nice to her.

Then one day Naomi said that she had to find a home (husband is what she really meant) for Ruth and she told her to get dressed up and go to Boaz's house. So Ruth did and she went to Boaz's house and layed down by his feet when he was sleeping (cuz that's what Naomi told her to do) and he woke up and found her there and said that she was a girl with a good reputation and that he would either get another guy to take care of her or else he would take care of her himself even though he was a lot older than her (which meant that he would marry her). Then he sent her home with a whole bunch of barley to take to her mother in law-- which was like a present for her. And then chapter 3 ends with Naomi basically saying to wait and see what would happen next.

Answer 11

omg!!!! do you think that good gpa is going to help you if haven't actually learned anything????? you'll never cut it in
college if you don't know anything. (better work on that spelling too!!!!)

you must need a better translation..............an NIV translation is a great one to read and to understand the bible. read one online.

now, get off the computer and go do your homework!