RUTH—NOTE ON Ruth 1:11 sons in my womb... your husbands. Naomi’s question assumes that the widows could marry their dead husbands’ brothers (levirate marriage, Deuteronomy 25:5). Even if it had been possible for Naomi to have another son, however, he would not be able to give Orpah or Ruth a child for many years. This is not a solution to their problem. the hand of the LORD... against me. Naomi wrongly thinks her hard circumstances come from God’s anger toward her.

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