Ruth 1:10

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ruth 1:1-22

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 name of Bethlehem: Ruth 4:11. Genesis 35:19. The name of Elimelech’s wife was Naomi, beautiful. Ruth 1:20 . The Almighty. שׁדי Shaddai, the Almighty; the self-sufficient being can repair all my calamities. Ruth 1:22 . The barley harvest. See on Deuteronomy 11:14. REFLECTIONS. Famine... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ruth 1:10

Ruth 1:10Surely we will return with thee.Promises and purposesI. Promises of speech and purposes of heart, whether to God, to His church, or to individuals, ought to go hand in hand. If a man’s word does not express his meaning and bind him, nothing can.II. Promises and purposes often proceed from passion instead of principle.III. Promises and purposes proceeding merely from passion soon fall to the ground. “I go, sir,” one said in the Gospels, and “went not.” Some persons melting under the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ruth 1:10

Rth 1:10 And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. Ver. 10. Surely we will return with thee. ] So they both said, and said as they thought: but Orpah, upon second thoughts, did otherwise. Saul in a passion promised fair, 1Sa 24:16-17 ; 1Sa 26:21 but David knew there was no trusting to either his tears or his talk. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ruth 1:10

Surely: Psalms 16:3, Psalms 119:63, Zechariah 8:23 Reciprocal: Ruth 1:7 - they went read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 1:6-22

NAOMI’S RETURN WITH RUTH TO BETHLEHEM, Ruth 1:6-22. Bereft of her husband and her sons, the desolate Naomi turns her heart towards the land of her people. To her Moab has been a land of sorrows, and though the graves of her beloved dead are there, they are so full of bitter recollections that she wishes not to linger near them. The ten years of her sojourn in these sunny, fertile fields of abundance have been to her worse than years of famine. read more

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ruth 1:1-22

The Biblical Illustrator - Ruth 1:10

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ruth 1:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ruth 1:10

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 1:6-22

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