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THE BOOK OF RUTH
-Year before the common year of Christ, 1186.
-Year from the Flood, 1162.
-Year before the first Olympiad, 410.
-Creation from Tisri, or September, 2818.
-This chronology is upon...
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IN THE DAYS WHEN THE JUDGES RULED - “Judged.” This note of time,
like that in Ruth 4:7; Judges 18:1; Judges 17:6, indicates that this
Book was written after the rule of the judges had ceased. The
gene...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
CHAPTER 1 The Story of Naomi: Orpah and Ruth
_ 1. Naomi and her sorrows (Ruth 1:1)_
2. The return (Ruth 1:6)
3. Orpah turning back, Ruth cleaving (Ruth 1:14)
4. Naomi and...
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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 lan...
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NOW IT CAME TO PASS IN THE DAYS. Occurs five times. Always denotes
impending trouble, followed by happy deliverance. Compare Genesis
14:1.Esther 1:1.Isaiah 7:1.Jeremi
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_Ruth's Devotion: She Leaves Her Home and Follows Naomi to Judah_
1 _.in the days when the judges judged_ The scene of the following
story is thus placed in a distant age, which the writer pictures as...
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IT CAME TO PASS—WHEN THE JUDGES RULED— Though these words point
out the general epocha of this event, yet they leave us at a loss to
determine under what particular judge it happened. Bishop Usher pla...
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Ruth Comes to Bethlehem Ruth 1:1-22
_Introduction to the Life and Times of Ruth 1:1-7_
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was
a famine in the land. And a certain man of...
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_NOW IT CAME TO PASS IN THE DAYS WHEN THE JUDGES RULED, THAT THERE WAS
A FAMINE IN THE LAND. AND A CERTAIN MAN OF BETHLEHEMJUDAH WENT TO
SOJOURN IN THE COUNTRY OF MOAB, HE, AND HIS WIFE, AND HIS TWO S...
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1:1 ruled, (a-12) _ Shaphat_ , lit. 'judged.' country (b-32) Lit.
'fields,' 'farmlands,' as ver. 6, and elsewhere. As 2 Kings 8:3 ,2
Kings 8:5 ....
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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, which...
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THERE IS A *REDEEMER
BOOK OF RUTH
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Words in boxes are notes on the Bible text.
JESUS SAID, ‘THE SON OF MAN CAME TO GIVE HIS LIFE TO *REDEEM MANY
PEOPLE’ (MATTHEW 20:28). (‘SON O...
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WHEN THE JUDGES RULED. — Literally, _when the judges judged._ This
note of time is by no means definite. As we have seen, some have
proposed to connect the famine with the ravages of the Midianites
Ju...
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וַ יְהִ֗י בִּ ימֵי֙ שְׁפֹ֣ט הַ
שֹּׁפְטִ֔ים
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NAOMI'S BURDEN
Ruth 1:1
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 of the gr...
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BACK TO BETHLEHEM
Ruth 1:1
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 Chilion _...
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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 impr...
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Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was
a famine in the (a) land. And a certain man of (b) Bethlehemjudah went
to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and hi...
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_Of one. Hebrew, "And it came to pass in the days when the judges
ruled." (Haydock) --- The and shews the connection with the former
book. (Calmet) --- Land. Chaldean adds, "of Israel," (Menochius) wh...
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CONTENTS
The book of Ruth opens in this Chapter with the relation of a certain
family leaving Bethlehem in consequence of a famine, and sojourning in
the country of Moab. The distressing events which...
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Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was
a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to
sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two so...
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FROM: LECTURES INTRODUCTORY TO THE EARLIER HISTORICAL BOOKS OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT.
W. Kelly.
That the book of Ruth stands most fitly in the place where it is
actually found must have been felt by the...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4.
The Book of Ruth tells us also of the days of the judges, when there
was no king in Israel; but it shews us the fair side of those days, in
the o...
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NOW IT CAME TO PASS, IN THE DAYS WHEN THE JUDGES RULED,.... So that it
appears that this history is of time and things after the affair of
Micah, and of the concubine of the Levite, and of the war bet...
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Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was
a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to
sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two so...
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_There was a famine in the land_ This makes it probable that the
things here recorded came to pass in the days of Gideon, for that is
the only time when we read of a famine in the days of the judges;...
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1 Elimelech driuen by famine into Moab, dieth there.
4 Mahlon and Chilion, hauing married wiues of Moab, die also.
6 Naomi returning homeward,
8 disswadeth her two daughters in law from going with...
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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 the...
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RULED:
_ Heb._ judged...
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1-5 Elimelech's care to provide for his family, was not to be blamed;
but his removal into the country of Moab could not be justified. And
the removal ended in the wasting of his family. It is folly...
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RUTH CHAPTER 1
A famine in Canaan. Elimelech removes to Moab; with Naomi his wife,
and his two sons, who marry Orpah and Ruth there; and die, RUTH 1:1.
Naomi returns to Judah; her daughters-in-law acc...
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Ruth 1:1 days H3117 judges H8199 (H8802) ruled H8199 (H8800) famine
H7458 land H776 man H376 Bethlehem...
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Ruth 1:1
‘ And it came about in the days when the judges judged, that there
was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went
to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, a...
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FAMINE
(_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 12:10). _
BETHLEHEMJUDAH
House of Bread and Praise....
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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 than...
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CONTENTS: Naomi departs from Moab and returns with Ruth to Bethlehem.
CHARACTERS: God, Naomi, Ruth, Orpah, Elimelech, Mahlon, Chilion.
CONCLUSION: When we take God for our Father we must take His pe...
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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 old na...
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_In the days when the judges ruled._
THE TRANSITION FROM JUDGES TO RUTH
Leaving the Book of Judges and opening the story of Ruth, we pass from
vehement out-door life, from tempest and trouble, into q...
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RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 1:1 Introduction: Naomi’s Family Dies. This
brief introduction tells how Naomi lost her entire family.
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
_Ruth 1:1_. NOW] Heb. ו _vau_, and. The same introcopula between all
the books of the O. T. so far, except in the opening of Deuteronomy,
which begins abruptly. Keil (1...
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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 the commence...
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Shall we turn now to the book of Ruth?
As we were studying the book of Judges last week, we pointed out that
at the end of chapter sixteen, the end of the story of Samson, you
actually came to the end...
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1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 8:1; 2 Kings 8:2; 2 Samuel 21:1;...
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RUTH AND ORPAH
Ruth 1:1
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.
1. THE TWO...
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In the land — Of Canaan. It must be early: for Boaz was born of
Rahab. So Christ descended from two Gentile mothers....