In the book of Ruth, Naomi and her family are refugees in Moab, dependent on the hospitality of Moabites, who come in for a lot of bad press in the Old Testament. (see Deuteronomy 23:3) And when Ruth returns to Judah with Naomi, she is now the refugee among a people Moses told never to admit a Moabite into "the assembly of the LORD." Yet Ruth the foreigner becomes the hero in the story, the example of faithfulness who will be the great-grandmother of King David.