Ruth 1:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; ”

Ruth 1:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See marginal references and notes. The Levirate law probably existed among the Moabites, and in Israel extended beyond the brother in the strict sense, and applied to the nearest relations, since B...
Ruth 1:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ruth 1:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

should say . should have said.
Ruth 1:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Turn again, my daughters, go your way ; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Ruth 1:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; Turn again, my...
Ruth 1:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Ruth 1:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Ruth 1:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Ruth 1:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Ruth 1:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me....
Ruth 1:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Turn again, my daughters, go your way ,.... This she repeated still to try their affections to her, and especially whether there was any real love to the God of Israel, his people, and worship, but...
Ruth 1:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Turn again, my daughters, go [your way]; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, [if] I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; Ver. 12. Turn ag...
Ruth 1:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ruth 1:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Naomi Returns to Canaan; Naomi and Her Daughters-in-Law; Ruth's Constancy to Naomi. B. C. 1312....
Ruth 1:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Go your way. Quest. Why doth she dissuade them from this journey, and not rather persuade them to go with her, and to embrace the Jewish religion? Answ. 1. Possibly she thought such dissuasion...
Ruth 1:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Are there yet sons? etc. In allusion to the custom of a man raising posterity to his deceased brother by taking his widow ( Adam Clarke, Jarci, Wright, Keil ). Probab...
Ruth 1:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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 1:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Ruth 1:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

It grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me. Naomi’s parting address This is a great aggravation of the afflictions of many parents, that their children...
Ruth 1:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Ruth 1:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Return of Naomi with Ruth
Ruth 1:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 5:9 ; Genesis 17:17
Ruth 1:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

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....

Ruth 1:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ruth 1:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ruth 1:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ruth 1:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ruth 1:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ruth 1:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ruth 1:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ruth 1:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ruth 1:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ruth 1:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ruth 1:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ruth 1:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ruth 1:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ruth 1:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ruth 1:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 1:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ruth 1:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ruth 1:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ruth 1:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ruth 1:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary