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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Ruth 1:14

The kiss at parting as well as at meeting is the customary friendly and respectful salutation in the East. The difference between mere kindness of manner and self-sacrificing love is most vividly depicted in the words and conduct of the two women. Ruth’s determination is stedfast to cast in her lot with the people of the Lord (compare the marginal references and Matthew 15:22).

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See also Ruth 1:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ruth 1:14. _AND ORPAH KISSED HER MOTHER-IN-LAW_] The Septuagint add, Και επεστρεψεν εις τον λαον αυτης, _And returned to her own_ _people_. The Vulgate, Syrian, and Arabic, are to the same purpo...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Orpah kissed her mother in law_ and, it is implied, said good-bye....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND ORPAH KISSED HER MOTHER-IN-LAW— Houbigant reads here after the LXX, _and returned to her people._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THEY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE, AND WEPT AGAIN: AND ORPAH KISSED HER MOTHER IN LAW; BUT RUTH CLAVE UNTO HER._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    KISSED. — Orpah, though unwilling to leave her mother-in-law, and though warmly attached to her, still thinks of the hardships of the journey, of the hardships when the journey is done; and the comfor...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תִּשֶּׂ֣נָה קֹולָ֔ן וַ תִּבְכֶּ֖ינָה עֹ֑וד...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE PARTING OF THE WAYS Ruth 1:14 WE journey along with others for a time, enjoying their fellowship and sharing their hopes, yet with thoughts and dreams of our own that must sooner or later send us...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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 _...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah (f) kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her. (f) When she took leave and departed....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _And returned, is not expressed in Hebrew. But the Septuagint have, "and she returned to her people." (Haydock)._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her. What a striking evidence is here, in these two character's, of the wonderful difference bet...

  • 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...

  • 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 THEY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE, AND WEPT AGAIN,.... Not being able to bear the thought of parting, or that they must be obliged to it: AND ORPAH KISSED HER MOTHER IN LAW; gave her the parting kiss, a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her._ Ver. 14. _And they lifted up their voice, and wept again._] As loath to part, for the ol...

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

    _Kissed_ Departed from her with a kiss. Bade her farewell for ever. She loved Naomi; but she did not love her so well as to quit her country for her sake. Thus many have a value for Christ, and yet co...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE RETURN OF NAOMI WITH RUTH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they lifted up their voice and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, convinced that the way pointed out by her was the best; BUT RUTH CLAVE UNTO HER, clinging to her all the more closely...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ORPAH KISSED HER MOTHER-IN-LAW, i.e. departed from with a kiss, as the manner was, GENESIS 31:28 1 KINGS 19:20....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ruth 1:14 up H5375 (H8799) voices H6963 again H1058 (H8799) Orpah H6204 kissed H5401 (H8799) mother-in-law...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ And they lifted up their voice, and wept again, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clove to her.' Then they all again wept together, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law and returned to her...

  • 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: 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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth clave unto her._ ORPAH’S DEFECTION I. Worldly respects are great hindrances in the course of godliness. The world keepeth from the entertaining of the truth...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 1:14 RUTH CLUNG to Naomi, an expression of loyalty and devotion (compare Genesis 2:24, “hold fast”)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—AND THEY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE AND WEPT AGAIN “exceedingly” (_Dr. Cassel_), “still more” (_Luther_). As in E.V. (_Lange_). (See on Ruth 1:9.) Much affected with the tend...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 19:20; 2 Timothy 4:10; Acts 17:34; Deuteronomy 10:20;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Kissed — Departed from her with a kiss. Bade her farewell for ever. She loved Naomi, but she did not love her so well, as to quit her country for her sake. Thus many have a value for Christ, and yet c...

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