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Verse Ruth 1:21. _I WENT OUT FULL_] Having a _husband_ and _two sons_.
_THE LORD HATH BROUGHT ME HOME AGAIN EMPTY_] Having lost all _three_
by death. It is also likely that Elimelech took considerab...
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THE LORD HATH TESTIFIED AGAINST ME - The phrase is very commonly
applied to a man who gives witness concerning (usually against)
another in a court of justice Exodus 20:16; 2 Samuel 1:16; Isaiah 3:9....
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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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_hath testified against me_ i. e. hath marked His displeasure by the
misfortunes which have overtaken me; for the idiom cf. Numbers 35:30;
1 Samuel 12:3. The Targ. characteristically moralizes: it was...
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_Ruth's Arrival in Bethlehem Ruth 1:19-22_
19 So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to
pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved
about them, and they s...
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_I WENT OUT FULL, AND THE LORD HATH BROUGHT ME HOME AGAIN EMPTY: WHY
THEN CALL YE ME NAOMI, SEEING THE LORD HATH TESTIFIED AGAINST ME, AND
THE ALMIGHTY HATH AFFLICTED ME?_
The Almighty, х_ SHADAY_ (H...
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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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אֲנִי֙ מְלֵאָ֣ה הָלַ֔כְתִּי וְ
רֵיקָ֖ם הֱשִׁיבַ֣נִי...
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IN THE FIELD OF BOAZ
Ruth 1:19; Ruth 2:1
WEARY and footsore the two travellers reached Bethlehem at length, and
"all the city was moved about them." Though ten years had elapsed,
many yet remembered...
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LOVE'S STEADFAST CHOICE
Ruth 1:15
This young woman was to be an ancestor of David and in the line of our
Lord's descent. Moabite though she was by birth, Ruth was designated
for the high honor of int...
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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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_Almighty. Hebrew Sadai, ("the self-sufficient) hath afflicted."_...
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I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why
then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and
the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Such language is suitable to a...
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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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I WENT OUT FULL,.... Of my husband and children, as the Targum; of
children and riches, as Aben Ezra and Jarchi; wherefore some Jewish
writers blame her and her husband for going abroad at such a time...
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I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why
[then] call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me,
and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Ver. 21. _I went out full._...
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_Is this Naomi?_ Is this she that formerly lived in so much plenty and
honour? How marvellously is her condition changed! _Call me not Naomi_
Which signifies _pleasant_, and _cheerful. Call me Mara_ W...
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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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I went out full, rich, as a wife and mother, AND THE LORD HATH BROUGHT
ME HOME AGAIN EMPTY, with neither husband nor sons; WHY, THEN, CALL YE
ME NAOMI, SEEING THE LORD HATH TESTIFIED AGAINST ME, had d...
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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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19-22 Naomi and Ruth came to Bethlehem. Afflictions will make great
and surprising changes in a little time. May God, by his grace, fit us
for all such changes, especially the great change!, Naomi si...
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FULL; with my husband and sons, and a plentiful estate for our
support. HATH TESTIFIED AGAINST ME, i.e. hath borne witness, as it
were, in judgment, and given sentence against me, and declared my sin...
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Ruth 1:21 out H1980 (H8804) full H4392 LORD H3068 again H7725 (H8689)
empty H7387 call H7121 ...
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“ I went out full, and YHWH has brought me home again empty. Why do
you call me Naomi, seeing that YHWH has testified against me, and
Shaddai (the Almighty) has afflicted me?”
And now God had made Him...
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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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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 1:20 THE LORD HAS TESTIFIED AGAINST ME. Naomi
thinks her suffering means that God is punishing her for some unknown
sin....
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—SO THEY TWO. Types of the Jewish and
Gentile Churches (_Macgowan_). Amicitia sit inter binos qui sunt veri,
et bonos qui sunt pauci (_Trapp_). WENT. They were obliged to...
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EXPOSITION
RUTH 1:15
AND SHE SAID, BEHOLD, THY SISTER-IN-LAW IS GONE BACK TO HER PEOPLE,
AND TO HER GODS: RETURN THOU AFTER THY SISTER-IN-LAW. The expression
that stands in King James's version thus,...
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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 Samuel 2:7; 1 Samuel 2:8; Job 1:21; Job 10:17; Job 13:26;...
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Full — With my husband and sons, and a plentiful estate for our
support. Testified — That is, hath borne witness, as it were, in
judgment, and given sentence against me....