Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ruth 1:6
Bread — That is, food; so she staid no longer there than necessity forced her.
Bread — That is, food; so she staid no longer there than necessity forced her.
Verse 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 o...
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...
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....
_the Lord had visited his people_ i. e. shewn a practical interest in; cf. Genesis 1:24 f E, Exodus 3:16; Exodus 4:31 J; St Luke 1:68;...
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...
_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._ The...
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...
THAT SHE MIGHT RETURN. — Literally, _and she returned._ Clearly, therefore, the three women actually began the journey; and when the start has been made. Naomi urges her companions to return. Then, as...
וַ תָּ֤קָם הִיא֙ וְ כַלֹּתֶ֔יהָ וַ תָּ֖שָׁב
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...
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 (d) visited his people in giving them bread. ...
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. Reader...
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...
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...
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. Ver....
_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 ca...
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...
Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the country of Moab, for it was understood that the younger women were merely to accompany her for some distance, perhaps to the bou...
THE RETURN OF NAOMI WITH RUTH...
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...
6-14 Naomi began to think of returning, after the death of her two sons. When death comes into a family, it ought to reform what is amiss there. Earth is made bitter to us, that heaven may be made de...
i.e. Food; so she staid no longer than necessity forced her....
Ruth 1:6 arose H6965 (H8799) daughters-in-law H3618 return H7725 (H8799) country H7704 Moab H4124 heard H8085 ...
‘ Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, so that she might return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab how YHWH had visited his people in giving them bread.' News mean...
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...
_She arose _. .. _ that she might return._ HOMEWARD LONGINGS Observe-- 1. God’s house of worldly correction is to God’s people a school of heavenly instruction. Naomi’s crosses and losses she met wi...
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. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— _Ruth 1:6_. THEN [and] SHE AROSE. She arose in order to return. Et surrexit ut in patriam pergeret (_Vulgate_). WITH HER DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW. Both the young women set out...
EXPOSITION RUTH 1:6 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 ...
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 Peter 2:12; 1 Samuel 2:21; 1 Timothy 6:8; Exodus 16:4; Exodus 3:16;...
RUTH, THE MOABITESS Ruth 1:6 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A study in genealogy. In the last chapter of the Book of Ruth beginning with Ruth 1:17 we read that marvelous announcement, "There is a son born to...
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...