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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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REST. Compare Ruth 3:1. A characteristic word in this Book....
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_that ye may find rest_ Cf. Ruth 3:1; Naomi had in her mind another
home for them, i. e. a second marriage. The story is told with much
naturalness and delicacy....
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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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_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._
The Lord grant you that ye may find rest - enjoy a...
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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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THE LORD GRANT YOU... — A twofold blessing is invoked by Naomi on
her daughters-in-law, made the more solemn by the twofold mention of
the sacred name Jehovah. She prays first for the general blessing...
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יִתֵּ֤ן יְהוָה֙ לָכֶ֔ם וּ מְצֶ֣אןָ
מְנוּחָ֔ה...
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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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The LORD grant you that ye may find (e) rest, each [of you] in the
house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their
voice, and wept.
(e) By this it appears that Naomi by dwelling...
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_Take. She proposes marriage to them, as a state more suitable to
their years, (Haydock) and wishes that they may experience none of its
solicitudes, (1 Corinthians vii. 28,) but be constantly protect...
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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 of...
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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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THE LORD GRANT YOU,.... Some make a supplement here, the Targum a
perfect reward, Aben Ezra an husband; and so Josephus says c, she
wished them happier marriages than they had with her sons, who were...
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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.
Ver. 9. _The Lord grant you, that ye may find rest...
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_That ye may find rest_, &c. That ye may be happily settled in houses
of your own, with good husbands. _That they may be your husbands_
According to the ancient custom, (Genesis 38:8,) and the express...
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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 Lord grant you that ye may find rest, quiet and safe happiness, an
asylum of honor and freedom, EACH OF YOU IN THE HOUSE OF HER HUSBAND,
in a second happy marriage. THEN SHE KISSED THEM, as the si...
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THE RETURN OF NAOMI WITH RUTH...
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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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6-14 Naomi began to think of returning, after the death of her two
sons. When death comes into a family, it ought to reform what is amiss
there. Earth is made bitter to us, that heaven may be made de...
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Ruth 1:9 LORD H3068 grant H5414 (H8799) find H4672 (H8798) rest H4496
each H802 house H1004 husband...
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‘ 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 fin...
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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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_The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of
her husband._
THE REST OF MARRIAGE
1. Man’s Maker is the chief maker of all men and women’s marriages
in the world. It is the wo...
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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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RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 1:8 RETURN EACH OF YOU TO HER MOTHER’S HOUSE.
Naomi hopes that both Ruth and Orpah will remarry and have children.
FIND REST... IN THE HOUSE OF HER HUSBAND. She hopes they will find...
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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. boundary...
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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 to depart ...
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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 20:37; Genesis 27:27; Genesis 29:11; Genesis 45:15; Ruth 3:1...
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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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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...