Boaz was a wealthy man who lived in Bethlehem and was the son of the prostitute Rahab. He later married Ruth and became an ancestor of David, and ultimately of Jesus Christ. He was born to the prostitute Rahab and Salmon (or Salma).
Matthew 1:5Jesse became the father of King David). David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.
그에게는 친족 엘리멜렉이 있었는데, 그 가족이 모압지역으로 떠났다가 모두 죽고 엘리멜렉의 부인 나오미와 며느리 룻이 돌아왔다는 사실을 듣고 그들을 선대했다.
Ruth 2:1Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi), “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”
Ruth 2:5The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.Ruth 2:6She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house.”Ruth 2:7Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.Ruth 2:8Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”Ruth 2:9Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”Ruth 2:10Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before.Ruth 2:11May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”Ruth 2:12Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”Ruth 2:13At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it.
이에 나오미는 룻을 보아스와 결혼시켜 그 자녀로 땅을 돌려받는 권리를 행사하고자 하였다.
보아스는 그런 나오미와 룻의 사정을 알고 룻과 결혼을 하여 엘리멜렉에게 할당되었던 땅도 되찾아 그 자녀 오벳에게 넘겨주는 역할을 감당하였다.
Ruth 4:1Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.Ruth 4:2He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.Ruth 4:3I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.” He said, “I will redeem it.”Ruth 4:4Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”Ruth 4:5The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”Ruth 4:6Now this was the custom in former time in Israel) concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of formalizing transactions in Israel.Ruth 4:7So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his sandal.Ruth 4:8Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.Ruth 4:9Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”Ruth 4:10All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.Ruth 4:11Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which Yahweh will give you by this young woman.”Ruth 4:12So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.Ruth 4:13The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.Ruth 4:14He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”Ruth 4:15Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him.Ruth 4:16The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.Ruth 4:17Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,
솔로몬이 세운 성전 입구에 세워진 구리 기둥 두 개 중 하나의 이름으로 다른 하나는 야긴이다.
1 Kings 7:20He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz.1 Kings 7:21On the top of the pillars was lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished.