1 Chronicles 2:11 Meaning and Explanation

The chronicler moves swiftly through three generations, arriving at Boaz, a name well known from the book of Ruth. Each father here passes the promise to his son, and the line draws nearer to the house of David. The mention of Boaz signals that the story of redemption in Bethlehem is woven directly into the royal line.

Boaz was the kinsman-redeemer who took Ruth, a foreigner, into the covenant family and rescued her household. In him the line of kings is bound up with mercy shown to an outsider. God was teaching, through one quiet marriage, the heart of redemption: that the destitute can be drawn near and given a future. The Redeemer who would come from this line was foreshadowed in a man who paid the price to make another his own.