Ruth 4:22
And Oved fathered Yishai, and Yishai fathered Dovid. + 4:22 T. N. This genealogy is important not only because it is Dovidʼs, but also because it is Moshiachʼs. See 1Chr 2:4; 3:5 and the genealogy in Mt 1 of Yehoshua/Yeshua Ben Dovid. The sandal exchanged ( Ruth 4:7 ) fell on the genealogical line that would inherit the earth ( Ro 4:13 ), crush Satanʼs head ( Gn 3:15 ), and make the temurah (substitution) to redeem the living and the dead ( Ro 4:25 ), even as Elimelech stood up alive vicariously through his Goel to reclaim the allotted inheritance of his redemption.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
In Context
21And Salmon fathered Boaz, and Boaz fathered Oved,
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:1And Hashem said unto Shmuel, Ad mosai wilt thou mourn for Sha'ul, seeing I have rejected him as Melech al Yisroel? Fill thine keren with shemen, and go, I will send thee to Yishai of Beit-Lechem: for I have provided Me a melech among his banim.
1 Chronicles 2:15Otzem the sixth, Dovid the seventh;
Matthew 1:6then Yishai fathered Dovid HaMelech; then Sh'lomo by the wife of Uriyah;
Matthew Henry on Ruth 4:14-22
The Pedigree of David; Naomi Comforted in Her Grandson. ( b. c. 1312.) 13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bare a son. 14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord , which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. 15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath… Read the whole commentary →