Ruth 1:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. ”

Ruth 1:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Marriages of Israelites with women of Ammon or Moab are nowhere in the Law expressly forbidden, as were marriages with the women of Canaan Deuteronomy 7:1-3 . In the days of Nehemiah the special l...
Ruth 1:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And they took them wives of the (c) women of Moab; the name of the one [was] Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. (c) By this wonderful providence of God Ru...
Ruth 1:4 - 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 1:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

took them wives. Canaanitish wives forbidden ( Deuteronomy 7:3 , &c.), but not Moabitish wives; though. Moabite man might not enter the congregation of Jehovah. See note, Deuteronomy 23:3 ....
Ruth 1:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. And they took them wives - The Targum very prop...
Ruth 1:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They took them wives of the women of Moab— We must necessarily conclude from this, that these women had become proselytes to the Jewish religion; for otherwise it was not lawful for Jews to have ma...
Ruth 1:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Ruth 1:4 - 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 1:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They took them wives. — This seems to have been after the father’s death. The fault of settling on a heathen soil begun by the father is carried on by the sons in marrying heathen women, for such w...
Ruth 1:4 - 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 1:4 - 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 1:4 - 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 1:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. What miseries spring out of original transgressi...
Ruth 1:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

A HEBREW IDYLL ‘The name of the other Ruth.’ 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-fie...
Ruth 1:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they took them wives of the women of Moab ,.... Not before they were proselyted to the Jewish religion, as Aben Ezra thinks, and which seems plainly to be the case of Ruth; at least she was so a...
Ruth 1:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one [was] Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. Ver. 4. And they took them wives of the wome...
Ruth 1:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They took them wives of the daughters of Moab Either these women were proselytes when they married them, which what is afterward recorded of Ruth (Rth 1:16) renders very probable, or they sinned in...
Ruth 1:4 - 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 1:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Elimelech and Naomi; Death of Elimelech and His Sons. B. C. 1312. 1 Now it came to pass...
Ruth 1:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Of the women of Moab; either these were proselytes when they married them, which may well be doubted, from Ruth 1:15 , or they sinned in marrying them, as appears from Deuteronomy 7:3 , Deute...
Ruth 1:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And they took for themselves wives of the women of Moab, the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth, and they dwelt there about ten years.' But gradually the sons would grow...
Ruth 1:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ruth 1:3 . And Elimelech … died. The conjunction seems to intimate shortly after his arrival. Certainly before the marriage of his sons. Josephus thinks, however,...
Ruth 1:4 - 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 1:4 - 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 1:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

They took them wives of the women of Moab. Sinful marriages The sin of these young men in marrying strange women is not expressly denounced as a sin in the story, although it is denounced in th...
Ruth 1:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ruth 1:1 Now it came to pass. Or, more literally, "And it came to pass." The "And" is somewhat remarkable, standing at the commencement of the Book. But as it is also found at...
Ruth 1:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Elimelech wnd Naomi in the Country of Moab
Ruth 1:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 11:1 ; 1 Kings 11:2 ; Deuteronomy 23:3 ; Deuteronomy 7:3 ; Matthew 1:5
Ruth 1:4 - 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 1:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Took wives — Either these were Proselytes when they married them, or they sinned in marrying them, and therefore were punished with short life, and want of issue.

Ruth 1:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ruth 1:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ruth 1:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ruth 1:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ruth 1:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ruth 1:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ruth 1:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ruth 1:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ruth 1:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ruth 1:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ruth 1:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ruth 1:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Ruth 1:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ruth 1:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ruth 1:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 1:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ruth 1:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ruth 1:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ruth 1:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ruth 1:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 1:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ruth 1:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ruth 1:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ruth 1:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ruth 1:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Ruth 1:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes