Commenting on the place of this record in the Bible canon, the Dictionnaire de la Bible explains that this account shows “how a woman of foreign birth, born among a pagan people hostile to and hated by Israel,... because of her love for Jehovah’s nation and worship, quite providentially became an ancestress of holy King David. ”
રૂથના માબાપ જે ધર્મમાં માનતા હતા, એનાથી અલગ જ ધર્મ તેણે પોતે પસંદ કર્યો.