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    Ruth · 22 verses

    Ruth 1

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    Naomi returns to Bethlehem with Ruth beside her and calls the return empty—a remarkably crowded sort of emptiness.

    A household thins outvv. 1–7

    During a famine, Elimelech takes Naomi and their two sons from Bethlehem in Judah to Moab. There the sons marry Orpah and Ruth; then Elimelech dies, followed after about ten years by Mahlon and Chilion. Naomi is left with neither husband nor sons, and when she hears that the LORD has provided food for His people, she sets out for Judah with her daughters-in-law.

    Ruth will not be detachedvv. 8–22

    On the road, Naomi urges Orpah and Ruth to return to their mothers’ homes, with an ingenious if severe calculation involving husbands not yet born and sons not yet grown. Orpah kisses her goodbye; Ruth clings to her and gives the chapter its great travelling vow. Naomi stops arguing. Together they reach Bethlehem, where the town stirs at Naomi’s arrival. She says the name Naomi no longer suits her: she went away full and has come back empty, though Ruth is standing beside her and the barley harvest has begun.

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    1. Ruth 1:1In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.

    2. Ruth 1:2The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.

    3. Ruth 1:3Then Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,

    4. Ruth 1:4who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,

    5. Ruth 1:5both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.

    6. Ruth 1:6When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.

    7. Ruth 1:7Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.

    8. Ruth 1:8Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.

    9. Ruth 1:9May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud

    10. Ruth 1:10and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”

    11. Ruth 1:11But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?

    12. Ruth 1:12Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,

    13. Ruth 1:13would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”

    14. Ruth 1:14Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

    15. Ruth 1:15“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”

    16. Ruth 1:16But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

    17. Ruth 1:17Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”

    18. Ruth 1:18When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.

    19. Ruth 1:19So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women of the town exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”

    20. Ruth 1:20“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.

    21. Ruth 1:21I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

    22. Ruth 1:22So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

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    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 180 passages were voted onto 22 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 162 Samuel 15:21But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”
    • 16Ruth 2:11–12Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
    • 162 Kings 2:2–6and Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Bethel.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
    • 16Psalms 45:10Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
    • 1Genesis 12:10Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
    • 16Matthew 8:19And one of the scribes came to Him and said, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”
    • 16John 13:37“Lord,” said Peter, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.”
    • 161 Thessalonians 1:9For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
    • 1Genesis 26:1Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
    • 16Isaiah 14:1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
    • 9Ruth 3:1One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?
    • 16Acts 21:13Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
    • 6Psalms 132:15I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
    • 1Ezekiel 14:13“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,
    • 11Deuteronomy 25:5When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
    • 162 Corinthians 6:16–18What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

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