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The book of Ruth is a love story. Like all love stories it has twists and turns, tension and resolution, and a happy ending. But it’s far more than that because it reveals to us a God who is deeply committed to caring for his people. In Boaz, God provides Ruth with a loving husband to free and provide for her, pointing us to the Bible’s grand story of redemption and David’s greatest son, Jesus. ...

Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” The first sentence (v 16a) and the fifth sentence (v 17b) belong together. The first sentence includes an introductory command, “Do not urge me …” and the fifth sentence is a concluding oath, “May the Lord do so to me …” The second sentence (v 16b) and the fourth sentence (v 17a) also belong together. They are a verbal pair: “where you go … I will go, and where you
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