Barley-harvest. — God had restored plenty to His people, and the wayfarers thus arrive to witness and receive their share of the blessing. The barley harvest was the earliest (Exodus 9:31), and would ordinarily fall about the end of April.
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Verse Ruth 1:22. _IN THE BEGINNING OF BARLEY HARVEST._] This was in the beginning of _spring_, for the barley harvest began immediately after the passover, and that feast was held on the 15th of the m...
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...
THE MOABITESS. So called five times. In Deuteronomy 23:3, it is masculine, and does not affect Ruth. BARLEY HARVEST. Therefore at the Passover....
_which returned out of the country of Moab_ A superfluous expression after _Naomi returned_, and possibly an insertion from Ruth 2:6, unless we regard it as a standing description of Ruth. _in the beg...
THEY CAME TO BETH-LEHEM IN THE BEGINNING OF BARLEY-HARVEST— The Chaldee paraphrast thus explains these words: "They came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the passover, on the day that the children of...
_Ruth's Arrival in Bethlehem Ruth 1:19-22_ 19 So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they s...
_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...
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...
וַ תָּ֣שָׁב נָעֳמִ֗י וְ ר֨וּת הַ מֹּואֲבִיָּ֤
IN THE FIELD OF BOAZ Ruth 1:19; Ruth 2:1 WEARY and footsore the two travellers reached Bethlehem at length, and "all the city was moved about them." Though ten years had elapsed, many yet remembered...
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...
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...
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 (i) barley harvest. (i) Which was i...
_Harvest. About the month of Nisan, or our March (Calmet) and April. (Menochius)_...
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. All souls, both Jew...
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...
SO NAOMI RETURNED,.... Aben, Ezra thinks this is to be understood of her returning at another time; but it is only an observation of the writer of this history, to excite the attention of the reader t...
_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._ Ver. 22. _So Naom...
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...
So Naomi returned, such was the nature of her return to the city of her fathers, AND RUTH THE MOABITESS, HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, WITH HER, WHICH RETURNED OUT OF THE COUNTRY OF MOAB. The curiosity of the...
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...
19-22 Naomi and Ruth came to Bethlehem. Afflictions will make great and surprising changes in a little time. May God, by his grace, fit us for all such changes, especially the great change!, Naomi si...
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Ruth 1:22 Naomi H5281 returned H7725 (H8799) Ruth H7327 Moabitess H4125 daughter-in-law H3618 returned H7725 (H8804) countr
‘ So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab, and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of the barley harvest.' Naomi had, wit...
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...
_So Naomi returned, and Ruth._ THE YOUNG CONVERT Little was Naomi aware of the treasure she was bringing to Israel or of the honour which was in store for Ruth. She says, “The Lord hath brought me ba...
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. ⇐...
RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 1:22 RUTH 1:1 is often referred to as THE MOABITE. This helps to emphasize how God’s kindness extends through the Israelites to other nati
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—WHICH RETURNED OUT OF THE COUNTRY [territories or fields] of MOAB. The description by which Ruth was commonly designated [cf. Ruth 2:6]. (_Speaker’s Com._). As the same...
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,...
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...
2 Samuel 21:9; Exodus 9:31; Exodus 9:32; Ruth 2:23...