Ruth 1:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. ”

Ruth 1:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Accompanying their mother-in-law to the borders of their own land would probably be an act of Oriental courtesy. Naomi with no less courtesy presses them to return. The mention of the mother’s hous...
Ruth 1:8 - 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 1:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Ruth 1:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
Ruth 1:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. Go, return each to her mother'...
Ruth 1:8 - 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 1:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Return. — Naomi’s love is all unselfish. The company of Ruth and Orpah would clearly have been a great solace to her, yet she will not sacrifice them to herself. They each had a mother and a home;...
Ruth 1:8 - 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 1:8 - 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 1:8 - 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 1:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept. There is somewhat very interesting in this account...
Ruth 1:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Naomi said to her two daughters in law ,.... When they were come, as it is very probable, to the utmost limits of the land of Moab, and to the borders of the land of Israel: go, return each un...
Ruth 1:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. Ver. 8. And Naomi said unto her two...
Ruth 1:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Return each to her mother's house She desires them to accompany her no farther, but to go back to their own home. And it seems it was usual in Moab, as well as in Israel, for widows to dwell with t...
Ruth 1:8 - 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 1:8 - 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 1:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Each to her mother's house; not that they wanted fathers, Ruth 2:11 , but because daughters used to converse more frequently with their mothers, and to be most endeared to them, and to dwell in...
Ruth 1:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother's house YHWH deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me. May YHWH grant you that you may...
Ruth 1:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 1:8 - 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 1:8 - 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 1:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

The Lord deal kindly with you. Naomi’s prayer for her daughters-in-law I. That it is a duty to pray for those which do either us or ours good. II. That at parting friends are to pray one for...
Ruth 1:8 - 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 1:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Return of Naomi with Ruth
Ruth 1:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Timothy 1:16-18 ; Colossians 3:18 ; Colossians 3:24 ; Ephesians 5:22 ; Ephesians 6:2 ; Ephesians 6:3 ; Joshua 24:15-28 ; Luke 14:25-33 ; Philippians 4:18 ; Philippians 4:19 ; Ruth 1:5 ;...
Ruth 1:8 - 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 1:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Mother's house — Because daughters used to converse more frequently with their mothers, and to dwell in the same apartments with them, which then were distinct from those parts of the house where t...

Ruth 1:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ruth 1:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ruth 1:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ruth 1:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ruth 1:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ruth 1:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ruth 1:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ruth 1:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ruth 1:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ruth 1:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ruth 1:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ruth 1:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 1:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ruth 1:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ruth 1:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 1:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ruth 1:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ruth 1:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ruth 1:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ruth 1:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ruth 1:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ruth 1:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ruth 1:8 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Ruth 1:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes