Emphasis Preaching Journal

Ruth, the Moabite woman, was a foreigner and the great-grandmother of David, and, therefore, a distant relative of Jesus. (Matthew 1:5) The liturgical greeting, "The Lord be with you. And with thy Spirit." (i.e., the Lord bless you), comes from this book. (2:4) The present site, shown to tourists/pilgrims as Shepherd's Field, outside Bethlehem could very well be the setting of much of the story of Ruth.