“And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.”
Naomi's revelation that Boaz is one of their kinsman-redeemers and her declaration that the Lord has not abandoned the living or the dead mark a pivotal transformation in her theology and her assessment of her circumstances. Where in chapter one she had declared herself empty and afflicted by God, she now recognizes God's steadfast love operating through unexpected channels. Her explicit identification of Boaz as a go'el (kinsman-redeemer) indicates that she has begun to formulate a plan for Ruth's redemption that operates within the legal structures of Israelite society.
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