Ruth 4:6

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I mar mine own inheritance - The meaning of these words is doubtful. Some explain them by saying that the גאל gā'al had a wife and children...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ruth 4. Ruth's Marriage. Ruth 4:1 . Instead of such an one! Boaz called the person's actual name, which the narrator either does not know or does...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it . I...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I cannot redeem it for myself, &c.— The Chaldee paraphrases thus: "I cannot redeem it upon this condition, because I have a wife already, and d...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Marriage of Boaz and Ruth. The Birth of their Child 1. Boaz went up from the threshing floor to the open space by the city-gate, where the b...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The kinsman draws back. The Rabbinic commentator thought that he was afraid of dying by God's judgment for marrying a Moabite, as Mahlon and Chilion...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lest I mar... — The redemption of the land would involve the spending of money, drawn away from the Goel’s own estate; but the land thus acquired...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE MARRIAGE AT THE GATE Ruth 4:1-22 A SIMPLE ceremony of Oriental life brings to a climax the history which itself closes in sweet music the s...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

in the Line of David's Ancestry Ruth 4:1-22 We are admitted here to a graphic picture of the old world. Men's memories were longer and stronger...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The nobility and faithfulness of Boaz are clearly manifested in this story. It is hardly possible to read this Book without being convinced that Boaz...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's: (4)...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself ,.... On such a condition, because he had a wife, as the Targum suggests; and to take another wo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem [it] for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem [it]....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lest I mar mine own inheritance It seems he had a wife and children already, which made him afraid to marry a poor woman with a small parcel of lan...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE FAITHFULNESS AND GRACE OF BOAZ (vv. 1-12) The same morning Boaz went to the gate of the city, the place of judgment, sitting there until the...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ruth Refused by Her Kinsman. B. C. 1312. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lest I mar mine own inheritance; either, first, Because having no children of his own, he might have one, and but one, son by Ruth, who, though he...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And the near kinsman said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance. You take my right of redemption on you, for I cannot re...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ruth 4:1 . Then went Boaz up . Bethlehem situated on a hill, while the cornfields and threshing floor would be in...
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 4:1 . The gate: the place of justice. Job 29 ; Genesis 19 . Ten men judged and attested the fairness of the price until the jubilee. Such s...
The Biblical Illustrator

I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance. The endangered inheritance Many men mar noble inheritances. I. The inheritan...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ruth 4:1 And Boaz went up, to the gate, and sat there. He "went up," for the city stood, as it still stands, on a ridge (see o...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Nearer Relative Declines to Act
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, he could not fulfill that condition, lest I mar mine own inheritance, for he held it possible...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Mar — Either because having no children of his own, he might have one, and but one son by Ruth, who, though he should carry away his inheritance, y...

⁶ And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.

Related Commentaries of Ruth 4:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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

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

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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ruth 4:6