Ruth 4:17

New Living Translation

The neighbor women said, “Now at last Naomi has a son again!” And they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse and the grandfather of David.

Cross References

Ruth 4:16

Naomi took the baby and cuddled him to her breast. And she cared for him as if he were her own.

Ruth 4:18

This is the genealogical record of their ancestor Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron.

Ruth 4:22

Obed was the father of Jesse. Jesse was the father of David.

1 Samuel 16:1

Now the Lord said to Samuel, “You have mourned long enough for Saul. I have rejected him as king of Israel, so fill your flask with olive oil and go to Bethlehem. Find a man named Jesse who lives there, for I have selected one of his sons to be my king.”

1 Samuel 17:12

Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. Jesse was an old man at that time, and he had eight sons.