Ruth 1:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? ”

Ruth 1:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord hath testified against me - The phrase is very commonly applied to a man who gives witness concerning (usually against) another in a court of justice Exodus 20:16 ; 2 Samuel 1:16 ; Is...
Ruth 1:21 - 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 1:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? I went out full - Having a...
Ruth 1:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The Lord hath testified against me— The former part of the verse expresses what Naomi means by the Lord's testifying against her: she went out full; happy in a husband and two sons; but returne...
Ruth 1:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? The Almighty, х Sha...
Ruth 1:21 - 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 1:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

IN THE FIELD OF BOAZ Ruth 1:19-22 ; Ruth 2:1-23 WEARY and footsore the two travellers reached Bethlehem at length, and "all the city was moved about them." Though ten years had elapsed, many y...
Ruth 1:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Love's Steadfast Choice Ruth 1:15-22 This young woman was to be an ancestor of David and in the line of our Lord's descent. Moabite though she was by birth, Ruth was designated for the high hon...
Ruth 1:21 - 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 1:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? Such language is suitable to...
Ruth 1:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I went out full ,.... Of my husband and children, as the Targum; of children and riches, as Aben Ezra and Jarchi; wherefore some Jewish writers blame her and her husband for going abroad at such a t...
Ruth 1:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why [then] call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? Ver. 21. I went out full...
Ruth 1:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Is this Naomi? Is this she that formerly lived in so much plenty and honour? How marvellously is her condition changed! Call me not Naomi Which signifies pleasant , and cheerful. Call me Mara...
Ruth 1:21 - 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 1:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Naomi's Reception at Bethlehem. B. C. 1312. 19 So they two went until they came to Bet...
Ruth 1:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Full; with my husband and sons, and a plentiful estate for our support. Hath testified against me, i.e. hath borne witness, as it were, in judgment, and given sentence against me, and declared my...
Ruth 1:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“ I went out full, and YHWH has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, seeing that YHWH has testified against me, and Shaddai (the Almighty) has afflicted me?” And now God had mad...
Ruth 1:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— So they two. Types of the Jewish and Gentile Churches ( Macgowan ). Amicitia sit inter binos qui sunt veri, et bonos qui sunt pauci ( Trapp ). Went. They were oblig...
Ruth 1:21 - 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 1:21 - 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 1:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ruth 1:15 And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back to her people, and to her gods: return thou after thy sister-in-law. The expression that stands in King James's v...
Ruth 1:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Return of Naomi with Ruth
Ruth 1:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 2:7 ; 1 Samuel 2:8 ; Job 1:21 ; Job 10:17 ; Job 13:26 ; Job 16:8 ; Malachi 3:5
Ruth 1:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Full — With my husband and sons, and a plentiful estate for our support. Testified — That is, hath borne witness, as it were, in judgment, and given sentence against me.

Ruth 1:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ruth 1:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ruth 1:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ruth 1:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ruth 1:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ruth 1:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ruth 1:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ruth 1:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ruth 1:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ruth 1:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ruth 1:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 1:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ruth 1:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ruth 1:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ruth 1:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ruth 1:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 1:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ruth 1:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ruth 1:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ruth 1:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes