“ And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. ”
Ruth and Naomi. Bethlehem ceased for a time to be what its name signified a house of bread. Under stress of famine Elimelech, with his wife Naomi, left his Judæ an home, and went to sojourn in the...
we will return with thee. This liberty was allowed by the laws of Khammurabi, 171-173 and 177.
And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.
And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. No JFB commentary on this verse.
The Exile and the Return of Naomi 1. Beth-lehem-judah] two hours' journey S. of Jerusalem, is to be distinguished from Bethlehem in Zebulun ( Joshua 19:15 ). It was but a short distance from Moab,...
NAOMI'S BURDEN Ruth 1:1-13 LEAVING the Book of Judges and opening the story of Ruth we pass from vehement outdoor life, from tempest and trouble into quiet domestic scenes. After an exhibition...
Back to Bethlehem Ruth 1:1-14 It was a mistake for Elimelech and his family to have left Bethlehem; God would have sent them bread. The path became darker and darker. Mahlon means Pining and...
The Book of Ruth stands in striking contrast to the Book of Judges and yet is closely connected with it. In Judges the national outlook has been presented and so dark has it been as to create the imp...
And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. There is something captivating, even to natural affections, in the first view of religion. Nature, as in the case of these tw...
And they said unto her ,.... When they had eased themselves in cries and tears, and had recovered their speech: surely we will return with thee unto thy people ; to be proselyted, as the Targum; n...
And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. Ver. 10. Surely we will return with thee. ] So they both said, and said as they thought: but Orpah, upon second thoughts, d...
That ye may find rest , &c. That ye may be happily settled in houses of your own, with good husbands. That they may be your husbands According to the ancient custom, ( Genesis 38:8 ,) and the...
DEPARTURE BECAUSE OF FAMINE (vv. 1-5) A famine was in the land of Israel. Why? Because the literal famine was to draw attention to the spiritual famine that came before it, a famine for hearing...
Naomi Returns to Canaan; Naomi and Her Daughters-in-Law; Ruth's Constancy to Naomi. B. C. 1312....
No text from Poole on this verse.
‘ And they said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.' Both women felt a genuine duty and love towards Naomi. And recognising her loneliness they insisted that they should rath...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ruth 1:8 ; Ruth 1:10 . And Naomi said [Then said Naomi] unto. The first recorded utterance of Naomi. Cox imagines them having reached the ford of the Arnon [N....
Ruth 1-4 The Book of Ruth is a love-story told in four Chapter s. It gives us a glimpse of everyday life in Bethlehem; in home and in harvest-field, in its general gossip and its law-suits, more t...
Ruth 1:1 . When the judges ruled, about a hundred years before the birth of David. Famines were mostly occasioned by want of rain. Ruth 1:2 . Ephrathites; not Ephraimites, but of Ephrath, the...
Surely we will return with thee. Promises and purposes I. Promises of speech and purposes of heart, whether to God, to His church, or to individuals, ought to go hand in hand. If a man’s word d...
EXPOSITION Ruth 1:6 Then —the conjunction in Hebrew is the common generic copulative and— she arose. She had been sitting , as it were, where her husband had settled, and she now rose up...
The Return of Naomi with Ruth
Psalms 119:63 ; Psalms 16:3 ; Zechariah 8:23
Ruth and Orpah Ruth 1:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have before us today the story of two characters which were alike in many particulars, and yet, so vitally different and distinct in others....