Ruth 1:4

1 Kings 11:1; 1 Kings 11:2; Deuteronomy 23:3; Deuteronomy 7:3; Matthew 1:5

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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 Deutero...
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...
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,...
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 congreg...
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 year...
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; f...
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.
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 ( Josh...
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...
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 troubl...
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 be...
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 pres...
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....
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 ever...
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 pla...
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 year...
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 (...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Elimelech and Naomi; Death of Elimelech and His Sons. B. C. 1312....
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 marryin...
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 abou...
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 th...
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-fiel...
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 . E...
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...
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 com...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Elimelech wnd Naomi in the Country of Moab
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And they took them wives of the women of Moab, an act surely not in conformity with Deuteronomy 23:3-4 , although the Moabites are not expressly men...
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 ye...
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...

⁴ 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.

Related Commentaries of Ruth 1:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ruth 1:4