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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...
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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 depi...
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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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_Orpah kissed her mother in law_ and, it is implied, said good-bye....
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AND ORPAH KISSED HER MOTHER-IN-LAW— Houbigant reads here after the
LXX, _and returned to her people._...
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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 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....
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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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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...
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וַ תִּשֶּׂ֣נָה קֹולָ֔ן וַ
תִּבְכֶּ֖ינָה עֹ֑וד...
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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...
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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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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....
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_And returned, is not expressed in Hebrew. But the Septuagint have,
"and she returned to her people." (Haydock)._...
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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...
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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 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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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 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...
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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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ORPAH KISSED HER MOTHER-IN-LAW, i.e. departed from with a kiss, as the
manner was, GENESIS 31:28 1 KINGS 19:20....
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‘ 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...
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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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_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...
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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 1:14 RUTH CLUNG to Naomi, an expression of loyalty
and devotion (compare Genesis 2:24, “hold fast”)....
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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...
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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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1 Kings 19:20; 2 Timothy 4:10; Acts 17:34; Deuteronomy 10:20;...
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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...
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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...