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See marginal references and notes. The Levirate law probably existed
among the Moabites, and in Israel extended beyond the brother in the
strict sense, and applied to the nearest relations, since Boaz...
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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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SHOULD SAY. should have said....
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_I am too old to have an husband_ Naomi does not seriously contemplate
any application of the custom alluded to: not only has she no
surviving sons, but she never can have any.
_If I should say_etc.]...
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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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_TURN AGAIN, MY DAUGHTERS, GO YOUR WAY; FOR I AM TOO OLD TO HAVE AN
HUSBAND. IF I SHOULD SAY, I HAVE HOPE, IF I SHOULD HAVE AN HUSBAND
ALSO TO NIGHT, AND SHOULD ALSO BEAR SONS;_
Turn again, my daught...
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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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שֹׁ֤בְנָה בְנֹתַי֙ לֵ֔כְןָ כִּ֥י
זָקַ֖נְתִּי מִ...
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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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Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them
from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for
your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
T...
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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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TURN AGAIN, MY DAUGHTERS, GO YOUR WAY,.... This she repeated still to
try their affections to her, and especially whether there was any real
love to the God of Israel, his people, and worship, but sti...
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Turn again, my daughters, go [your way]; for I am too old to have an
husband. If I should say, I have hope, [if] I should have an husband
also to night, and should also bear sons;
Ver. 12. _Turn agai...
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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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Turn again, my daughters, go your way; her love was great enough to
bear the sacrifice of their parting with her, since she had only their
happiness in mind; FOR I AM TOO OLD TO HAVE AN HUSBAND, she w...
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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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HAVE A HUSBAND:
Or, if I were with an husband...
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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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GO YOUR WAY. QUEST. Why doth she dissuade them from this journey, and
not rather persuade them to go with her, and to embrace the Jewish
religion? ANSW.
1. Possibly she thought such dissuasion might...
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Ruth 1:12 back H7725 (H8798) daughters H1323 go H3212 old H2204
(H8804) husband H376 say H559 ...
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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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_It grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone
out against me._
NAOMI’S PARTING ADDRESS
This is a great aggravation of the afflictions of many parents, that
their children are...
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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 1:11 SONS IN MY WOMB... YOUR HUSBANDS. Naomi’s
question assumes that the widows could marry their dead husbands’
brothers (levirate marriage, Deuterono
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—ARE THERE YET SONS? etc. In allusion
to the custom of a man raising posterity to his deceased brother by
taking his widow (_Adam Clarke, Jarci, Wright, Keil_). Probably...
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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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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...