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Matthew Henry

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ruth 1:7

Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was ,.... What part of Moab she had dwelt in, and now removed from, is not said; it is called the country or field of Moab, she returned from; hence some have thought, that she and her husband, and her sons, did not live in any of the cities of Moab, but in a field; either because the Moabites would not suffer them to dwell in their cities, only allowed them to pitch their tents in their fields; or they chose to dwell there, that they might... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ruth 1:8

And Naomi said to her two daughters in law ,.... When they were come, as it is very probable, to the utmost limits of the land of Moab, and to the borders of the land of Israel: go, return each unto her mother's house : the mother's house is mentioned, and not the father's, not because they had no father living; for it is certain Ruth had a father as well as a mother, 2:11 but because mothers are most affectionate to their daughters, and they most conversant together; and because women... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ruth 1:9

The Lord grant you ,.... Some make a supplement here, the Targum a perfect reward, Aben Ezra an husband; and so Josephus says F3 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 9. sect. 1. , she wished them happier marriages than they had with her sons, who were so soon taken from them; but a supplement seems needless, for what follows is connected with the wish, and contains the sum of it: that you may find rest ; each of you: in the house of her husband ; that is, that they might each of them be blessed... 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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ruth 1:7

And so she went forth out of the place where she was. There is no attempt on the part of the writer to localize the spot. And her two daughters-in-law with her. They had kept, it seems, on terms of affectionate sympathy with their mother-in-law. The jealousies that so often disturb the peace of households had no place within the bounds of Naomi's jurisdiction. The home of which she was the matronly center had been kept in its own beautiful orbit by the law of mutual respect, deference,... read more

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