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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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_Ruth's Determination to Remain With Naomi Ruth 1:8-18_
8 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 d...
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_AND THEY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE, AND WEPT AGAIN: AND ORPAH KISSED HER
MOTHER IN LAW; BUT RUTH CLAVE UNTO HER._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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וַ תֵּ֕רֶא כִּֽי ־מִתְאַמֶּ֥צֶת הִ֖יא
לָ לֶ֣כ
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THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
Ruth 1:14
WE journey along with others for a time, enjoying their fellowship and
sharing their hopes, yet with thoughts and dreams of our own that must
sooner or later send us...
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LOVE'S STEADFAST CHOICE
Ruth 1:15
This young woman was to be an ancestor of David and in the line of our
Lord's descent. Moabite though she was by birth, Ruth was designated
for the high honor of int...
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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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When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she
left speaking unto her.
An oath for confirmation (saith an Apostle) is to them an end of all
strife. Ruth had solemnly protested th...
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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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WHEN SHE SAW THAT SHE WAS STEADFASTLY MINDED TO GO WITH HER,.... That
she was strong in her resolutions, and steadfast in her determinations
not to go back to her own country, but to go forward with h...
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When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she
left speaking unto her.
Ver. 18. _When she saw that she was steadfastly minded._] Heb.,
Strengthened herself, to wit, by her oath;...
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_That she was steadfastly minded to go with her_, &c. Was not this the
very thing that Naomi aimed at in all she said, namely, to bring Ruth
to be of this steadfast mind? _Then she left_ off _speaking...
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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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THE RETURN OF NAOMI WITH RUTH...
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When she, Naomi, SAW THAT SHE WAS STEADFASTLY MINDED, that her
resolution was unshakable, TO GO WITH HER, THEN SHE LEFT SPEAKING UNTO
HER, she no longer attempted to dissuade her....
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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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WAS STEADFASTLY:
_ Heb._ strengthened herself...
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15-18 See Ruth's resolution, and her good affection to Naomi. Orpah
was loth to part from her; yet she did not love her well enough to
leave Moab for her sake. Thus, many have a value and affection f...
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Ruth 1:18 saw H7200 (H8799) determined H553 (H8693) go H3212 (H8800)
stopped H2308 (H8799) speaking...
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‘ And when she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her,
she ceased speaking to her.'
When Naomi saw how determined Ruth was to go with her she refrained
from urging her any further. Possib...
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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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_When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she
left speaking unto her._
TRUST AFTER TESTING
After proof and trial made of their fidelity we are to trust our
brethren, without a...
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RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 1:6 Scene 1: Naomi Returns to Bethlehem with Ruth.
This first scene relates Ruth’s kindness in returning with Naomi to
Bethlehem.
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—ENTREAT ME NOT—Urge me not
(_Lange_), Force me not (_Wordsworth_), Be not against me (_Trem.
Junius, Montan. Bernard, Fuller, Wright; Vulg., Wycliffe, and, Douay
Ver._)....
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EXPOSITION
RUTH 1:15
AND SHE SAID, BEHOLD, THY SISTER-IN-LAW IS GONE BACK TO HER PEOPLE,
AND TO HER GODS: RETURN THOU AFTER THY SISTER-IN-LAW. The expression
that stands in King James's version thus,...
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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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Acts 2:42; Acts 21:14; Ephesians 6:10...
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RUTH, THE MOABITESS
Ruth 1:6
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. A study in genealogy. In the last chapter of the Book of Ruth
beginning with Ruth 1:17 we read that marvelous announcement, "There
is a son born to...
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Left speaking unto her — See the power of resolution! Those who are
half — resolved, are like a door a — jar, which invites a thief.
But resolution shuts and bolts he door, and then the devil flees fr...