Ruth 4:13
“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does Ruth 4:13 Mean?
The long-awaited fulfillment comes. Boaz takes Ruth as his wife, and the Lord gives her conception, and she bears a son. The narrator credits the gift directly to God: the LORD gave her conception. The widow who had lost everything, the foreign woman who came home empty alongside Naomi, now holds new life in her arms, a child given by the hand of God Himself.
How fitting that the birth is attributed to the Lord. Through all the providence, the gleaning, the threshing floor, the redemption at the gate, it is God who finally fills the emptiness with life. Ruth, once barren of hope as well as of children, becomes a mother by divine gift. This is the God who brings life out of loss and fullness out of barrenness. The son in Ruth's arms answers a story that began in famine and death. What the Lord gives here is not merely a child but the turning of mourning into joy, and the securing of a line that would lead to the King of kings.