Ruth 4:22

Conservative English Version

(SEE 4:18)

Cross References

1 Chronicles 2:12

Obed, and Jesse.

1 Chronicles 2:15

(SEE 2:13)

Isaiah 11:1

Like a branch that sprouts from a stump, someone from David's family will someday be king.

Matthew 1:6

From David to the time of the exile in Babylonia, the ancestors of Jesus were: David, Solomon (his mother had been Uriah's wife), Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram; Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, and Jehoiachin and his brothers.

Luke 3:31

Melea, Menna, Mattatha, Nathan, David,

Ruth 4:17

The neighborhood women named him Obed, but they called him "Naomi's Boy." When Obed grew up he had a son named Jesse, who later became the father of King David.

Ruth 4:21

(SEE 4:18)

1 Samuel 1:1

Elkanah lived in Ramah, a town in the hill country of Ephraim. His great-great-grandfather was Zuph, so Elkanah was a member of the Zuph clan of the Ephraim tribe. Elkanah's father was Jeroham, his grandfather was Elihu, and his great-grandfather was Tohu.

1 Samuel 16:1

One day he said, "Samuel, I've rejected Saul, and I refuse to let him be king any longer. Stop feeling sad about him. Put some olive oil in a small container and go visit a man named Jesse, who lives in Bethlehem. I've chosen one of his sons to be my king."

1 Samuel 17:12

David's father Jesse was an old man, who belonged to the Ephrath clan and lived in Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons: