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but I seem to have forgotten it--a very beautiful line.
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So, it highlights her faithfulness.
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It's faith to Naomi that brings her into the realm of Judah
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under the protection of the God of the Israelites
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and causes her to become married to Boaz, who is of a noble family.
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And Ruth, finally, is the great-grandmother of King David.
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So, she is an alien, a stranger, who comes into the Israelite fold
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and ends up being in the lineage of their greatest king.
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And, in the New Testament, of course, that also means that
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she is of the House of Jesus, because Jesus is of the House of David.
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So, in Christian teaching, the story of Ruth is about the
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foreshadowing of the gentile inclusion of the Jewish redemption.