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Verse Ruth 1:11. ARE _THERE YET_ ANY MORE _SONS_] This was spoken in
allusion to the custom, that when a married brother died without
leaving posterity, his brother should take his widow; and the chi...
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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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WHY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
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_have I yet sons … that they may be your husbands_?] Alluding to the
custom of levirate marriage, i. e. marriage with a brother in law
(Lat. _levir_) after the husband's death. The law on the subject...
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ARE THERE YET ANY MORE SONS IN MY WOMB, &C.— Naomi refers in these
words to that very ancient custom, which seems to have existed from
the beginning of the world, of the brother marrying the widow of...
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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 NAOMI SAID, TURN AGAIN, MY DAUGHTERS: WHY WILL YE GO WITH ME? ARE
THERE YET ANY MORE SONS IN MY WOMB, THAT THEY MAY BE YOUR HUSBANDS?_
Are there yet any more sons ... This alludes to the ancient...
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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 advice of Naomi thus far is insufficient to shake the affectionate
resolve of the two women. She then paints the loneliness of her lot.
She has no more sons, and can hope for none; nay, if sons we...
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וַ תֹּ֤אמֶר נָעֳמִי֙ שֹׁ֣בְנָה
בְנֹתַ֔י לָ֥מָּה...
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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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_Of me. Hence it appears that the Rabbins are under a mistake, when
they say that those children who are born after the death of their
brothers, are not obliged to take their widows._...
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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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AND NAOMI SAID, TURN AGAIN, MY DAUGHTERS,.... Supposing this
resolution of theirs only arose from a natural affection, and not from
any love to the God or people of Israel; at least doubting whether i...
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And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me?
[are] there yet [any more] sons in my womb, that they may be your
husbands?
Ver. 11. _Turn again, my daughters._] Though she were but...
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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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And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters; why will ye go with me? It
was her great love for them which prompted her to deter them, if
possible. ARE THERE YET ANY MORE SONS IN MY WOMB THAT THEY MAY BE...
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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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According to the ancient custom, GE 38, and the express law of God,
DEUTERONOMY 25:5, which doubtless she had acquainted them with before,
among other branches of the Jewish religion, wherein she did...
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Ruth 1:11 Naomi H5281 said H559 (H8799) back H7725 (H8798) daughters
H1323 go H3212 (H8799) sons...
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‘ And Naomi said, “Turn again, my daughters. Why will you go with
me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?”
But Naomi recognised that she now had nothing to offer them. To women...
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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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Deuteronomy 25:5; Genesis 38:11...
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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...