Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Ruth 1:12
have a husband:
Or, if I were with an husband
have a husband:
Or, if I were with an husband
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...
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...
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...
SHOULD SAY. should have said....
_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.]...
_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...
_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...
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...
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...
שֹׁ֤בְנָה בְנֹתַי֙ לֵ֔כְןָ כִּ֥י זָקַ֖נְתִּי מִ...
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...
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 _...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THE RETURN OF NAOMI WITH RUTH...
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...
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...
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...
Ruth 1:12 back H7725 (H8798) daughters H1323 go H3212 old H2204 (H8804) husband H376 say H559 ...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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. ⇐...
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
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...
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 ...
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...
1 Timothy 5:9; Genesis 17:17...
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...
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...