{"id":34770,"date":"2015-01-14T21:57:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?page_id=34770"},"modified":"2016-07-14T11:23:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T16:23:54","slug":"men-bible-boaz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/christian\/men-bible-boaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Of The Bible: Boaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Boaz, Booz<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[B\u014d&#8217;\u0103z,B\u014d&#8217;\u014fz] &#8211; strength or fleetness.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The wealthy and honorable Bethlehemite, or Judahite, who became the second husband of Ruth the Moabitess, and ancestor of David and of Christ<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> (Ruth 2, 3, 4; Matt. 1:5)<\/span>. The name of the left pillar of Solomon&#8217;s Temple was Boaz, for &#8220;in it is strength&#8221;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> (1 Kings 7:21)<\/span>. Boaz was true to his name and comes before us strong in grace, integrity and purpose. As the lord of the harvest, master of servants, redeemer, bridegroom and life-giver, he is a fitting type of Christ.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/biblegateway.christianbook.com\/all-the-men-of-bible\/herbert-lockyer\/9780310280811\/pd\/0280818?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MOTB-_-20101008-Shallum-_-ad-BuyItNow&amp;cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_--_--_-Buy+it+now!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/image.exct.net\/lib\/fe621570756203757117\/m\/1\/allthemenofthebible.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Today&#8217;s reading is from:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All the Men of the Bible<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nby Herbert Lockyer<\/p>\n<p>A portrait gallery and reference library of over 3,000 named biblical characters. Characters you can learn from and teachings you can apply.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/biblegateway.christianbook.com\/all-the-men-of-bible\/herbert-lockyer\/9780310280811\/pd\/0280818?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MOTB-_-20101008-Shallum-_-ad-BuyItNow&amp;cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_--_--_-Buy+it+now!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Buy it now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also these related resources:<\/p>\n<p>* <a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/biblegateway.christianbook.com\/all-the-women-of-bible\/herbert-lockyer\/9780310281511\/pd\/0281512?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MOTB-_-20101008-Shallum-_-ad-WOTBText&amp;cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_--_--_-All+the+Women+of+the+Bible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">All the Women of the Bible by Herbert Lockyer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boaz, Booz [B\u014d&#8217;\u0103z,B\u014d&#8217;\u014fz] &#8211; strength or fleetness. The wealthy and honorable Bethlehemite, or Judahite, who became the second husband of Ruth the Moabitess, and ancestor of David and of Christ (Ruth 2, 3, 4; Matt. 1:5). The name of the left pillar of Solomon&#8217;s Temple was Boaz, for &#8220;in it is strength&#8221; (1 Kings 7:21). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":86205,"parent":30369,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34770","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34770\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}