Ruth 1:6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ruth 1:6-18

See here, I. The good affection Naomi bore to the land of Israel, Ruth 1:6. Though she could not stay in it while the famine lasted, she would not stay out of it when the famine ceased. Though the country of Moab had afforded her shelter and supply in a time of need, yet she did not intend it should be her rest for ever; no land should be that but the holy land, in which the sanctuary of God was, of which he had said, This is my rest for ever. Observe, 1. God, at last, returned in mercy to his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ruth 1:6

Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab ,.... After the death of her two sons, and having heard of the ceasing of the famine in Israel, she had a desire to go into her own country, where she would have better opportunities of serving the Lord; and having no heart to stay in Moab, an idolatrous country, where she had lost her husband, and her two sons; and therefore prepared for her journey, and set forward, and her two daughters-in-law with... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 1:6

She had heard - By the mouth of an angel, says the Targum. The Lord had visited his people - "Because of the righteousness of Ibzan the judge, and because of the supplications of pious Boaz." - Targum. It is imagined, and not without probability, that Mahlon and Chilion are the same with Joash and Saraph, mentioned 1 Chronicles 4:22 , where the Hebrew should be thus translated, and Joash and Saraph, who married in Moab, and dwelt in Lehem. See the Hebrew. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ruth 1:6

EXPOSITION 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 (see Ruth 1:4 ). She, and her daughters-in, law. The word for "her daughters-in-law—" כַּלּתֶיהָ —is literally "her brides," that is, the brides of her sons. That she might return—an admirable rendering into English idiom. The phrase in the original is simply "and she returned," that is,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ruth 1:6-7

Home returning. "Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return. And they went on their way to return." Home again! The first step is everything! "She arose." It was all well with the prodigal when he did that. Not simply when he said, "I will arise;" but when be arose and went to his father. Directly the eye and the heart and the step agree, then the whole is settled. We read nothing of the preliminaries of departure. Who does not know the power of the loadstone when it... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ruth 1:6-14

Longing for the old home. Brings to view I. NAOMI 'S RESOLUTION . No wonder that she formed it; for— 1. The ties that bound her to the land of Moab had been snapped by the hand of death. In the death of her husband there was the disruption of the house-band . In the deaths of her two sons who had become husbands , the only other bands or bonds that could keep together for Naomi a home in Moab were burst. Matthew Henry says, "The land of Moab was now become a... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ruth 1:5-6

Ruth 1:5-6. The woman was left of her two sons and her husband Loss of children and widowhood are both come upon her. By whom shall she be comforted? It is God alone who is able to comfort those who are thus cast down. The Lord had visited his people in giving them bread That is, food: so she stayed no longer than necessity forced her. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ruth 1:1-22

1:1-22 TEN YEARS OF HARDSHIP IN MOABWhen a severe famine struck Israel, Elimelech took his wife Naomi and their two sons across the Jordan and south to the land of Moab, in the hope of finding a living there. But Elimelech died, and within ten years his two sons, who had married Moabite wives, died also (1:1-5).Naomi saw no future for herself in Moab, so, upon hearing that the famine in Israel had passed, she decided to return home. Her daughters-in-law loved her and decided to go with her to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ruth 1:6

return. This was in 1326, the year before the second jubilee (1325-1324). See App-50 . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . visited. Compare Exodus 4:31 .Psalms 132:15 .Luke 1:68 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ruth 1:6

NAOMI DECIDES TO RETURN TO BETHLEHEM (Ruth 1:6-10)"Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that Jehovah had visited his people in giving them bread. And she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah. And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house: Jehovah deal... read more

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