Ruth 1:1 – In the days when the judges ruled… Judges Summary from the Bible Project Judges 21:25 – In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. God is even when we are Judges 2:10 – And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel Every generation is an Ruth 1:1a – In the days when the Judges ruled, there was a famine in the land and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. Ruth 1:2a – The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah… Ruth 1:15 – And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” Ruth 1:16a – But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people…” Gospel friendship is and “The most relationally healthy people at 50 years old were the most physically healthy at 80 years old.” Foundations Text the word GROUPS to 75642 Ruth 1:16b-17 – “…and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” Earthly should be rooted in an eternal Ruth 1:20-21 – She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the Lord has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?”