The effect of urbanization, globalization, technological advancement, migration, and the environmental crisis on human relation to place has spurred much recent theological reflection, such as in John Inge’s A Christian Theology of Place or Craig Bartholomew’s Where Mortals Dwell: A Christian View of Place for Today. Though theologies of place have largely been absent in Western philosophy and theology, the importance of place has been a central theme in Old Testament theology, as exemplified in Walter Brueggemann’s The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith or Norman Habel’s The Land is Mine: Six Biblical Land Ideologies. Despite the recent developments in theologies of place, there remains few theologies of place that consider the incorporation of foreigners, such as migrants, into the land. In this regard, Old Testament theologies of land and an examination of the book of Ruth can provide a valuable perspective on the loss of place as experienced by migrants. The book of Ruth wrestles with the landless and placeless experience of two widows, and most notably a Moabite foreigner who is excluded from the assembly according to Deut 23:3–6. Throughout the book, the lingering question is: how can Ruth the Moabite find a new home in Bethlehem and how might the widowed Naomi reconnect to her land? Engaging both Christian theologies of place and Old Testament theologies of land, this paper considers the dynamics of place in the book of Ruth and asks how the book of Ruth integrates these widows into the Bethlehemite community, namely through both the benefaction of an Israelite patron and the involvement of a divine patron.