Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ruth 1:1
In the land — Of Canaan. It must be early: for Boaz was born of Rahab. So Christ descended from two Gentile mothers.
In the land — Of Canaan. It must be early: for Boaz was born of Rahab. So Christ descended from two Gentile mothers.
THE BOOK OF RUTH -Year before the common year of Christ, 1186. -Year from the Flood, 1162. -Year before the first Olympiad, 410. -Creation from Tisri, or September, 2818. -This chronology is upon...
IN THE DAYS WHEN THE JUDGES RULED - “Judged.” This note of time, like that in Ruth 4:7; Judges 18:1; Judges 17:6, indicates that this Book was written after the rule of the judges had ceased. The gene...
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...
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...
NOW IT CAME TO PASS IN THE DAYS. Occurs five times. Always denotes impending trouble, followed by happy deliverance. Compare Genesis 14:1.Esther 1:1.Isaiah 7:1.Jeremi
_Ruth's Devotion: She Leaves Her Home and Follows Naomi to Judah_ 1 _.in the days when the judges judged_ The scene of the following story is thus placed in a distant age, which the writer pictures as...
IT CAME TO PASS—WHEN THE JUDGES RULED— Though these words point out the general epocha of this event, yet they leave us at a loss to determine under what particular judge it happened. Bishop Usher pla...
Ruth Comes to Bethlehem Ruth 1:1-22 _Introduction to the Life and Times of Ruth 1:1-7_ 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...
_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 S...
1:1 ruled, (a-12) _ Shaphat_ , lit. 'judged.' country (b-32) Lit. 'fields,' 'farmlands,' as ver. 6, and elsewhere. As 2 Kings 8:3 ,2 Kings 8:5 ....
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...
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...
WHEN THE JUDGES RULED. — Literally, _when the judges judged._ This note of time is by no means definite. As we have seen, some have proposed to connect the famine with the ravages of the Midianites Ju...
וַ יְהִ֗י בִּ ימֵי֙ שְׁפֹ֣ט הַ שֹּׁפְטִ֔ים
NAOMI'S BURDEN Ruth 1:1 LEAVING the Book of Judges and opening the story of Ruth we pass from vehement outdoor life, from tempest and trouble into quiet domestic scenes. After an exhibition of the gr...
BACK TO BETHLEHEM Ruth 1:1 It was a mistake for Elimelech and his family to have left Bethlehem; God would have sent them bread. The path became darker and darker. Mahlon means _Pining_ and Chilion _...
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...
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the (a) land. And a certain man of (b) Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and hi...
_Of one. Hebrew, "And it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled." (Haydock) --- The and shews the connection with the former book. (Calmet) --- Land. Chaldean adds, "of Israel," (Menochius) wh...
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 so...
CONTENTS The book of Ruth opens in this Chapter with the relation of a certain family leaving Bethlehem in consequence of a famine, and sojourning in the country of Moab. The distressing events which...
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...
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...
NOW IT CAME TO PASS, IN THE DAYS WHEN THE JUDGES RULED,.... So that it appears that this history is of time and things after the affair of Micah, and of the concubine of the Levite, and of the war bet...
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 so...
_There was a famine in the land_ This makes it probable that the things here recorded came to pass in the days of Gideon, for that is the only time when we read of a famine in the days of the judges;...
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...
ELIMELECH WND NAOMI IN THE COUNTRY OF MOAB...
Now, it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, some hundred and fifty years before the reign of David, THAT THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE LAND, an affliction threatened by the Lord, Deuteronomy...
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...
RULED: _ Heb._ judged...
1-5 Elimelech's care to provide for his family, was not to be blamed; but his removal into the country of Moab could not be justified. And the removal ended in the wasting of his family. It is folly...
RUTH CHAPTER 1 A famine in Canaan. Elimelech removes to Moab; with Naomi his wife, and his two sons, who marry Orpah and Ruth there; and die, RUTH 1:1. Naomi returns to Judah; her daughters-in-law acc...
Ruth 1:1 days H3117 judges H8199 (H8802) ruled H8199 (H8800) famine H7458 land H776 man H376 Bethlehem...
Ruth 1:1 ‘ And it came about in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, a...
FAMINE (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 12:10). _ BETHLEHEMJUDAH House of Bread and Praise....
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...
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...
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...
_In the days when the judges ruled._ THE TRANSITION FROM JUDGES TO RUTH Leaving the Book of Judges and opening the story of Ruth, we pass from vehement out-door life, from tempest and trouble, into q...
RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 1:1 Introduction: Naomi’s Family Dies. This brief introduction tells how Naomi lost her entire family. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— _Ruth 1:1_. NOW] Heb. ו _vau_, and. The same introcopula between all the books of the O. T. so far, except in the opening of Deuteronomy, which begins abruptly. Keil (1...
EXPOSITION RUTH 1:1 NOW IT CAME TO PASS. Or, more literally, "And it came to pass." The "And" is somewhat remarkable, standing at the commencement of the Book. But as it is also found at the commence...
Shall we turn now to the book of Ruth? As we were studying the book of Judges last week, we pointed out that at the end of chapter sixteen, the end of the story of Samson, you actually came to the end...
1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 8:1; 2 Kings 8:2; 2 Samuel 21:1;...
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...