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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Ruth 4:11

Like Rachel and like Leah, amiable and fruitful. Those two are singled out, partly because they were of a foreign and heathenish original, and yet ingrafted into God's people, as Ruth also was; and partly because of that singular fertility which God vouchsafed unto them above their predecessors, Sarah and Rebekah. Rachel is placed before Leah, because she was his most lawful, and only intended, and chosen, and best beloved wife. Build the house, i.e. increase the posterity. See Genesis 16:2 Exodus 1:21. Ephratah and Bethlehem, two names of one and the same place; of which See Poole on "Ruth 1:2".

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ruth 4:11. WE ARE _WITNESSES._] It is not very likely that any writing was drawn up. There was an appeal made to the people then present, whether they had seen and understood the transaction; w...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    See the margin. There is something of a poetical turn in this speech of the elders, and something prophetic in the blessing pronounced by them. It is unique and obscure. The Greek Version (lxx) is uni...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 THE REDEMPTION AND MARRIAGE _ 1. The other kinsman (Ruth 4:1)_ 2. His refusal (Ruth 4:6) 3. Boaz's redemption (Ruth 4:9) 4. The marriage (R

  • 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 not see any need for bringing into the story. Ruth 4:2...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BE FAMOUS. proclaim. name....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _like Rachel and like Leah_ Genesis 29:31 to Genesis 30:24. May Ruth become the ancestress of a famous race! Dante ranks her fourth after Sarah, Rebecca, Judith, in Paradise; _Parad._xxxii. 10 ff. For...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE LORD MAKE THE WOMAN—LIKE RACHEL, AND—LEAH— See Genesis 24:60....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Boaz Marries Ruth 4:9-12_ 9And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech'S, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon'S, of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN THE GATE, AND THE ELDERS, SAID, WE ARE WITNESSES. THE LORD MAKE THE WOMAN THAT IS COME INTO THINE HOUSE LIKE RACHEL AND LIKE LEAH, WHICH TWO DID BUILD THE HOUSE OF ISR...

  • 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 business he had in hand would have to be done, where, to...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THERE IS A *REDEEMER BOOK OF RUTH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are notes on the Bible text. CHAPTER 4 V1 Boaz went to the gate of the town and he sat down there. Then the other *redeemer...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE LORD... — In this way is the nuptial blessing invoked. IS COME. — Rather, _is coming._ RACHEL — though the younger sister and the junior wife — is put first, probably from her death and burial ha...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ כָּל ־הָ עָ֧ם אֲשֶׁר ־בַּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE MARRIAGE AT THE GATE Ruth 4:1 A SIMPLE ceremony of Oriental life brings to a climax the history which itself closes in sweet music the stormy drama of the Book of Judges. With all the literary sk...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    IN THE LINE OF DAVID'S ANCESTRY Ruth 4:1 We are admitted here to a graphic picture of the old world. Men's memories were longer and stronger than ours: and what was done publicly in the Gate, the pla...

  • 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 had already found himself in love with Ruth, which...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders, said, [We are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Israel, by a numerous posterity. --- That she. Hebrew, "mayst thou acquire riches," &c. (Calmet). --- Protestant, "do thou (Booz) worthily in," &c. (Haydock). --- Ephrata: another name of Bethlehem....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Isra...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _REDEMPTION AT THE GATE_ ‘All the people that were in the gate said, We are witnesses.’ Ruth 4:11 I. IT WAS A SOLEMN MOMENT WHEN BOAZ SAID TO THE ELDERS AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE, ‘Ye are witnesses thi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN THE GATE, AND THE ELDERS, SAID, WE ARE WITNESSES,.... Both of the purchase of the estate by Boaz being legally made, and of the marriage of Ruth to him, the condition o...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders, said, [We are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Rachel and Leah_ Amiable and fruitful. These two are singled out, because they were of a foreign original, and yet ingrafted into God's people, as Ruth was; and because of that fertility which God vo...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Boaz calleth into iudgment the next kinseman. 6 He refuseth the redemption according to the maner in Israel. 9 Boaz buyeth the inheritance. 11 He marrieth Ruth. 13 She beareth Obed the grandfath...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, responding to this frank appeal and declaration, SAID, WE ARE WITNESSES, their testimony giving legal standing to the transaction. THE LORD MA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE HAPPY MARRIAGE OF BOAZ AND RUTH...

  • Leslie 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 close relative of whom he spoke came by(v. 1).At the...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DO THOU WORTHILY: Or, get thee riches or power BE FAMOUS: _ Heb._ proclaim thy name...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-12 Men are ready to seize opportunities for increasing their estates, but few know the value of godliness. Such are the wise men of this world, whom the Lord charges with folly. They attend not to...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ruth 4:11 people H5971 gate H8179 elders H2205 said H559 (H8799) witnesses H5707 LORD H3068 make H5414 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Ruth 4:11 ‘ And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses.” Then all the people in the gateway gathered together with the elders, and declared ‘we are witnesses'. T...

  • 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-field, in its general gossip and its law-suits, more than...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Ruth finds reward in her marriage to Boaz. CHARACTERS: God, Boaz, Ruth, Naomi, kinsman, Obed. CONCLUSION: Fair and square dealings in all matters of contract and business is what all those...

  • 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 sales being open, were freer from disputes. Boaz took ten...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Ruth the Moabitess _. .. _ have I purchased to be my wife._ THE MARRIAGE OF BOAZ AND RUTH Two features which stand prominent in this description make it valuable for all time. 1. There is the publi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 4:1 Scene 4: Boaz Arranges Redemption at the Gate. Both verb and noun forms of “redeem” occur throughout this scene (compare Ruth 2:20;...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 4:11 RACHEL AND LEAH. Through childbearing they BUILT UP THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, that is, established and continued Jacob’s family ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ruth 4:11. WE ARE WITNESSES. The business settled without lawyers or legal casuistry (_A. Clarke_). THE LORD MAKE. The birth of children looked upon as a direct interfe...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 on Ruth 1:1; Ruth 3:6). "And sat there," on one of the stones,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So when Boaz rose up he went to the gate of the city, he sat down there: and, behold, the kinsman of which he was speaking came by, and he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And so he tu...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 25:9; Genesis 24:60; Genesis 29:32; Genesis 30:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Rachel and Leah — Amiable and fruitful. These two are singled out, because they were of a foreign original, and yet ingrafted into God's people, as Ruth was; and because of that fertility which God vo...

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