(Joshua 2; 6). Ruth, the Moabite woman who was loyal to her Hebrew mother-in-law, gained her future husband Boaz one night during the grain festival (Ruth 3). And “the wife of Uriah” is Bathsheba, who bathed in the right place during “the spring of the year” and thus became David’s wife (2 Samuel 11–12). Possibly each of these women, at least Rahab and Ruth, would be perceived as foreigners. In spite of their origins and questionable moral actions, God acted through each. Within this setting, Matthew’s