1. Ruth 1:1–7 (ESV)
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Ruth 1:1–7 (ESV)

1 In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

Man proposes and God disposes

  1. Elimelech’s sinful decision

  2. How Elimelech is judged by the God of Israel

  3. The decision of Naomi to return to Israel

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