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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Ruth 1:17

The Lord do so and so, &c. A form of swearing usual in the history of the Old Testament, by which the person wished such and such evils to fall upon them, if they did not do what they said. (Challoner) --- It is not certain that they expressed what particular evils. (Calmet) --- They might be willing to undergo any punishment, if they should transgress. (Haydock) --- The pagans used a similar form of imprecation, 3 Kings xix., and 4 Kings xx. 10. (Calmet)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ruth 1:17. _THE LORD DO SO TO ME, AND MORE_] May he inflict any of those punishments on me, and any worse punishment, if I part from thee till death. And it appears that she was true to her eng...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _will I die … be buried_ According to ancient thought union in life meant union in death and in the grave; the members of a family had a common burying-place, Genesis 47:30; Genesis 49:29. In the unde...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 278 THE CHARACTER OF RUTH Ruth 1:15. _She_ (Naomi) said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister-in-law. And Ruth said, Entre...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Ruth's Determination to Remain With Naomi Ruth 1:8-18_ 8 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 d...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE LORD DO SO TO ME. — Ruth clinches her resolutions with a solemn oath, in which, if we are to take the words literally, she swears by the name of the God of Israel. With this Naomi yields; after so...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בַּ אֲשֶׁ֤ר תָּמ֨וּתִי֙ אָמ֔וּת וְ שָׁ֖ם אֶקּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE PARTING OF THE WAYS Ruth 1:14 WE journey along with others for a time, enjoying their fellowship and sharing their hopes, yet with thoughts and dreams of our own that must sooner or later send us...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me. In what sweet and engaging language hath the Holy Ghost been pleased...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHERE THOU DIEST WILL I DIE, AND THERE WILL I BE BURIED,.... She was determined to abide with her unto death, and not only was desirous to die as she did, but where she should die; in the same country...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, [if ought] but death part thee and me. Ver. 17. _Where thou diest, &c_] That both she and her mother sho...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Entreat me not to leave thee_ For all thy entreaties cannot shake that resolution which thy instructions, formerly given, have wrought in me. _Whither thou goest, I will go_ Though to a country I nev...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. She will not be swerved from her intention to cast her lot with that of Naomi. It was not the affection of a daughter to her natural mother no...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE RETURN OF NAOMI WITH RUTH...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-18 See Ruth's resolution, and her good affection to Naomi. Orpah was loth to part from her; yet she did not love her well enough to leave Moab for her sake. Thus, many have a value and affection f...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ruth 1:17 die H4191 (H8799) die H4191 (H8799) buried H6912 (H8735) LORD H3068 do H6213 (H8

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ And Ruth said, “Do not entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people, and your God my...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 1:17 MAY THE LORD DO SO TO ME. Ruth swears this oath in the name of Yahweh (compare 1 Samuel 3:17;...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—ENTREAT ME NOT—Urge me not (_Lange_), Force me not (_Wordsworth_), Be not against me (_Trem. Junius, Montan. Bernard, Fuller, Wright; Vulg., Wycliffe, and, Douay Ver._)....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 19:2; 1 Kings 2:23; 1 Kings 20:10; 1 Samuel 25:22; 1 Samuel

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    RUTH AND ORPAH Ruth 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have before us today the story of two characters which were alike in many particulars, and yet, so vitally different and distinct in others. 1. THE TWO...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    There will I be buried — Not desiring to have so much as her dead body carried back into the land of Moab: but Naomi and she having joined souls, she desires they may mingle dust, in hopes of rising t...

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