Ruth 1:17

will I die … be buried According to ancient thought union in life meant union in death and in the grave; the members of a family had a common burying-place, Genesis 47:30; Genesis 49:29. In the underworld they lived together, as families and by nations; cf. the expression -he was gathered to his people," i.e. his fellow tribesmen, and see Ezekiel 32:17-32.

the Lord do so to me, and more also Jehovah has already become the God of Ruth, and she uses the name of Israel's God in a solemn imprecation, which occurs only here and in the books of Samuel and Kings. When heathen utter this oath, Elohimis used instead of Jehovah, and the verbs are plural, 1 Kings 19:2; 1 Kings 20:10. Lit. the phrase here runs -Jehovah do so to me, and more also (only) death shall separate me from thee"; the substance of the oath is an assertion, not a negation; similarly 1 Samuel 14:44; 1 Samuel 20:13; 1 Kings 2:23 etc. in the Hebr.