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Myles Coverdale Bible

Ruth 4:22

Obed begat Isai. Isai begat Dauid.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Genealogy;   Obed;   Ruth;   Thompson Chain Reference - David;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judah, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Names;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Boaz;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Messiah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jesse;   Obed;   Pharez;   Ruth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Moab and the Moabite Stone;   Nahshon;   Naomi;   Ruth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Boaz;   Genealogy of Jesus Christ;   Marriage;   Sabbatical Year;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jesse ;   Obed ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Elimelech;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jesse;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jes'se;   O'bed;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - David;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Boaz;   David;   Genealogy;   Judah;   Nahshon;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 9;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Obed fathered Jesse,
Hebrew Names Version
and `Oved became the father of Yishai, and Yishai became the father of David.
King James Version
And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
Lexham English Bible
and Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.
English Standard Version
Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.
New Century Version
Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David.
New English Translation
Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David.
Amplified Bible
Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David [the king of Israel and the ancestor of Jesus Christ].
New American Standard Bible
and Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Obed begate Ishai, and Ishai begate Dauid.
Legacy Standard Bible
and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
Complete Jewish Bible
‘Oved was the father of Yishai, and Yishai was the father of David.
Darby Translation
and Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David.
Easy-to-Read Version
Obed was the father of Jesse. Jesse was the father of David.
George Lamsa Translation
And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat King David.
Literal Translation
and Obed fathered Jesse; and Jesse fathered David.
American Standard Version
and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
Bible in Basic English
And Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Obed begat Isai, Isai begat Dauid.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David.
King James Version (1611)
And Obed begat Iesse, and Iesse begate Dauid.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Obed begot Jessae; and Jessae begot David.
English Revised Version
and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
Berean Standard Bible
Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Obeth gendride Isay; Isay gendride Dauid the kyng.
Young's Literal Translation
and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
Update Bible Version
and Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
World English Bible
and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
New King James Version
Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David.
New Living Translation
Obed was the father of Jesse. Jesse was the father of David.
New Life Bible
Obed was the father of Jesse. And Jesse was the father of David.
New Revised Standard
Obed of Jesse, and Jesse of David.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, Obed, begat, Jesse, and, Jesse, begat, David.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Obed begot Isai, Isai begot David.
Revised Standard Version
Obed of Jesse, and Jesse of David.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and to Obed was born Jesse, and to Jesse, David.

Contextual Overview

13 So Boos toke Ruth, and she became his wife. And whan he laye with her, the LORDE graunted her yt she conceaued, and bare a sonne. 14 The sayde the wemen vnto Naemi: Praysed be the LORDE, which hath not suffred a kynsman to ceasse from the at this tyme, that his name maye contynue in Israel: 15 he shal restore thy life agayne, and prouyde for thine age. For yi sonnes wife which hath loued the, hath borne him that is better vnto the, then seuen sonnes. 16 And Naemi toke the childe, and layde it vpon hir lappe, and became the norse of it, 17 and hir neghbours gaue him a name & sayde: There is a childe borne vnto Naemi, and they called his name Obed. The same is the father of Isai, which is ye father of Dauid. 18 This is ye generacion of Phares. Phares begat Hesrom. 19 Hesrom begat Aram. Aram begat Aminadab. 20 Aminadab begatt Naasson. Naasson begat Salmon. 21 Salmo begat Boos. Boos begat Obed. 22 Obed begat Isai. Isai begat Dauid.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jesse: 1 Samuel 16:1, Isaiah 11:1

David: 1 Chronicles 2:15, Matthew 1:6, Luke 3:31

Reciprocal: Ruth 4:14 - that his 1 Samuel 17:12 - David 1 Chronicles 2:12 - Jesse Matthew 1:5 - Booz Luke 2:4 - unto

Cross-References

Exodus 25:3
And this is the Heueofferynge that ye shal take of them: Golde, syluer, brasse,
Numbers 31:22
Golde, siluer brasse, yron, tynne and leed,
Deuteronomy 8:9
A londe where thou shalt not eate bred in scarcenes, and where thou shalt lacke nothinge: A lode where ye stones are yron, where thou shalt dygge brasse out of hilles:
Deuteronomy 33:25
Yron and brasse be on thy shues. Thyne age be as thy youth.
2 Chronicles 2:7
Sede me now therfore a wyse ma to worke with golde, syluer, brasse, yron, scarlet, purple, yalow sylke and soch one as can graue carued worke with the wyse men that are with me in Iewry and Ierusalem, whom my father Dauid ordeyned.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Obed begat Jesse,.... The Bethlehemite, the father of David:

and Jesse begat David; the Targum adds, the king of Israel; and so the Syriac and Arabic versions add, the king; from whence it is by some concluded that this book was written by Samuel, not only after the birth of David, but after he had been anointed king by him: here being but four generations mentioned, from the coming of the Israelites into Canaan, to the birth of David, which was three hundred and sixty years, each of the four persons, Salmon, Boaz, Obed, and Jesse, must beget a son when one hundred years old and upwards; and which is not at all incredible, as appears by instances in later times, and therefore not at all improbable, that in those ancient times men of sobriety and good constitutions should have children at such an age.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 4:22. And Obed begat Jesse — "Who," says the Targum, "also is called Nachash, נחש because neither iniquity nor corruption was found in him, that he should be delivered into the hands of the angel of death, that he might take away his soul from him. And he lived many days until the counsel was remembered before the Lord, that the serpent gave to Eve the wife of Adam, that she should eat of the tree; by eating of the fruit of which they became wise, to distinguish between good and evil: and by that counsel all the inhabitants of the earth became guilty of death; and by this iniquity Jesse the Just died." Here is no mean or indistinct reference to the doctrine of original sin: and it shows us, at least, what the very ancient rabbins thought on the subject. I should observe that these additions are taken from the London Polyglot; they are not found in that of Antwerp; but they are the same that appear in the Targum of the great Bible printed by Bomberg, at Venice, in 1547-49.

And Jesse begat David — To this no comment is added by the Targumist, as the history of this king is found in the following book.

The ten persons whose genealogy is recorded in the five last verses, may be found, with a trifling change of name, in the genealogical list in Matthew 1:3-6, as forming important links in the line of the Messiah. To introduce this appears to have been the principal object of the writer, as introductory to the following books, where the history of David, the regal progenitor and type of the Messiah, is so particularly detailed.

FOR the account of the birth of Pharez and his brother Zarah, the reader is requested to refer to Genesis 38:12-30, and to the notes there; and for several particulars in the genealogy itself, to the notes on Matthew 1:1-16 and Luke 3:23-38, where the wisdom, goodness, and providence of God, in the preservation of this line, are particularly noticed.

MASORETIC NOTES ON RUTH

Number of verses in Ruth is 85.

Middle verse is Ruth 2:21.

We have already seen that Archbishop Usher places the event mentioned here in A.M. 2686, about one hundred years after the conquest of Canaan.


 
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