Bible lesson
Chapter 52: Ruth
Study notes, questions and the Bible passages that Kingdoms of Scripture Chapter 52 covers, as the game’s chapter map shows them. Read the passages first in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible, the text the game quotes: the game’s choices, maps and staging are reconstructions, not scripture. This page is not a church lesson and adds no doctrine.
Read and notice
Read Ruth 1:1–4:22 in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible, then consider the questions below. These are original reading prompts, not scripture.
- Chapter
- 52
- Title
- Ruth
- Bible passages
- Ruth 1:1–4:22
- Read in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible
- The chapter opens with
In the days when the judges were governing, a famine came over the land. A man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live as a foreigner in the countryside of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
Note · Process No published English Bible, commentary, or study note was open while Ruth was drafted. The wording source was the ancient-language witnesses named in the notes. A lexicon or grammar may be used for a source word. Greek, Syriac, and Latin, when they appear, witness the source wording. They are not models for the English.
Note · Text The continuous copy is the Leningrad Codex, read in the Open Scriptures diplomatic text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Dead Sea copies of Ruth exist and are fragmentary. Where they can be read, they do not give a second continuous book that replaces Leningrad for this draft. No earlier reading is guessed into the English.
Notice and discuss
What words or details do you notice as you begin reading this passage?
What questions would you like to explore as you read the complete passage?
Which verse would you return to for further study, and why?
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Kingdoms of Scripture Bible (KoS). CC BY 4.0. Source: bible.kingdomsofscripture.com. Quotations are whole published verses, matched to the game’s chapter references.