Foreign Wives
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That's because God forewarned them in the days of Moses against marrying foreign women. It's because in the later years how Israel fell was because of foreign women and whoredom which led to idolatry which led to the kingdom being torn in two in the days of Rehoboam and Jeroboam, which later led to God letting the wicked foreigners that Israel went a whoring with and whoring spiritually with their gods to punish them. Therefore Lord God did deliver them to the hands of their wicked foreign lovers to be beaten to death and enslaved by them and carried off ultimately in captivity to Babylon.
I read the op, rightly or wrongly, as a question of whether the reference of 'foreign women' was an ethnic or spiritual distinction, in light of other scripture that apparently 'overlooks' ethnic distinctions. Although I'm well away of the majority view that it is ethnic however, I have become apprehensive toward following the majority opinion, and do take the liberty graciously afforded me and conclude it (must be an spiritual issue, and thus agrees with not only the account of Ruth but also NT verse reference in the OP.
It is a racial distinction, but understand that in the ancient world race and religion are inseparable. Israel was the only race to follow Lord God, all the other races fell into their own peculiar pagan religions which are linked very heavily to their races.
Those foreigners like Ruth that people attempt to cite abandoned their race and their gods to become one with Israel. In the Bible, before the Pentecost and the going forth of the Apostles, the foreigners that turn to Lord God are extremely few. For the most part the other races are enemies of Israel and enemies of God and their races, their false gods, and their customs are to be abhorred.
Those foreigners like Ruth that people attempt to cite abandoned their race and their gods to become one with Israel. In the Bible, before the Pentecost and the going forth of the Apostles, the foreigners that turn to Lord God are extremely few. For the most part the other races are enemies of Israel and enemies of God and their races, their false gods, and their customs are to be abhorred.
Well Ruth is a great example of this, one remembers that after Naomi's husband and sons dies she tells her daughters-in-law to go on back to their races and their gods. One goes back to their people and their gods and one decided to forsake her race and her gods and go with Naomi and be adopted into the race of Judah and believe in the God of Judah. This one is Ruth.
