¹⁷ The women living there said, “Naomi has a son!” And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse,^(A) the father of David.^(B)

¹² Now David was the son of an Ephrathite^(A) named Jesse,^(B) who was from Bethlehem^(C) in Judah. Jesse had eight^(D) sons, and in Saul’s time he was very old.