_NOW IT CAME TO PASS IN THE DAYS WHEN THE JUDGES RULED, THAT THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE LAND. AND A CERTAIN MAN OF BETHLEHEMJUDAH WENT TO SOJOURN IN THE COUNTRY OF MOAB, HE, AND HIS WIFE, AND HIS TWO SONS._ Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled. In the use of this formula the sacred... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE NAME OF THE MAN WAS ELIMELECH, AND THE NAME OF HIS WIFE NAOMI, AND THE NAME OF HIS TWO SONS MAHLON AND CHILION, EPHRATHITES OF BETHLEHEMJUDAH. AND THEY CAME INTO THE COUNTRY OF MOAB, AND CONTINUED THERE._ Elimalech - signifies 'My God is king.' NAOMI - fair or pleasant; and their two son... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ELIMELECH NAOMI'S HUSBAND DIED; AND SHE WAS LEFT, AND HER TWO SONS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 THE LORD HAD VISITED HIS PEOPLE IN GIVING THEM BREAD._ Then she arose with her daughters-in-law. The aged widow, longing to enjoy the privileges of Israel, re... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE 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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 DEAD, AND WITH ME._ Go, return each to her mother's house. In Eastern countries women occupy apartments separate from those of men, and daughters are most f... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LORD GRANT YOU THAT YE MAY FIND REST, EACH OF YOU IN THE HOUSE OF HER HUSBAND. THEN SHE KISSED THEM; AND THEY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE, AND WEPT._ The Lord grant you that ye may find rest - enjoy a life of tranquility undisturbed by the cares, incumbrances, and vexatious troubles to which a state... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SAID UNTO HER, SURELY WE WILL RETURN WITH THEE UNTO THY PEOPLE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NAOMI SAID, TURN AGAIN, MY DAUGHTERS: WHY WILL YE GO WITH ME? ARE THERE YET ANY MORE SONS IN MY WOMB, THAT THEY MAY BE YOUR HUSBANDS?_ Are there yet any more sons ... This alludes to the ancient custom (Genesis 38:26), afterward expressly sanctioned by the law of Moses (Deuteronomy 25:5), whic... [ Continue Reading ]
_TURN AGAIN, MY DAUGHTERS, GO YOUR WAY; FOR I AM TOO OLD TO HAVE AN HUSBAND. IF I SHOULD SAY, I HAVE HOPE, IF I SHOULD HAVE AN HUSBAND ALSO TO NIGHT, AND SHOULD ALSO BEAR SONS;_ Turn again, my daughters, go your way. That Naomi should dissuade her daughters-in-law so strongly from accompanying her... [ Continue Reading ]
_WOULD YE TARRY FOR THEM TILL THEY WERE GROWN? WOULD YE STAY FOR THEM FROM HAVING HUSBANDS? NAY, MY DAUGHTERS; FOR IT GRIEVETH ME MUCH FOR YOUR SAKES THAT THE HAND OF THE LORD IS GONE OUT AGAINST ME._ The hand of the Lord is gone out against me - i:e., I am not only not in a condition to provide yo... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THEY TWO WENT UNTIL THEY CAME TO BETHLEHEM. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THEY WERE COME TO BETHLEHEM, THAT ALL THE CITY WAS MOVED ABOUT THEM, AND THEY SAID, IS THIS NAOMI?_ All the city was moved about them - the present condition of Naomi, a forlorn and desolate widow, presented so painful a cont... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE SAID UNTO THEM, CALL ME NOT NAOMI, CALL ME MARA: FOR THE ALMIGHTY HATH DEALT VERY BITTERLY WITH ME._ Mara - bitter, bitterness (see the note at Exodus 15:23).... [ Continue Reading ]
_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_ (H7706)]. This name of God was employed in the early after the flood, as we find it in Genesis 49:25,... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO NAOMI RETURNED, AND RUTH THE MOABITESS, HER DAUGHTER IN LAW, WITH HER, WHICH RETURNED OUT OF THE COUNTRY OF MOAB: AND THEY CAME TO BETHLEHEM IN THE BEGINNING OF BARLEY HARVEST._ In the beginning of barley harvest - corresponding to the end of our April.... [ Continue Reading ]