Ruth 4:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Ruth 4:17 —

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Luke 1:58-63
And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-22)

Here is, I. Ruth a wife. Boaz took her, with the usual solemnities, to his house, and she became his wife (Ruth 4:13), all the city, no doubt, congratulating the preferment of a virtuous woman, purely for her virtues. We have reason to think that Orpah, who returned from Naomi to her people and her gods, was never half so well preferred as Ruth was. He that forsakes all for Christ shall find more…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. Obed--means “servant.”