22And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
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And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:
Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,
And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
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…
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