Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionBut Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.New Living TranslationBut Ruth replied, “Don’t...
Now that we are 54 minutes into the movie, we actually find the first coinciding dialogue, verse 16 of still the first chapter: "But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your ...
Read full chapter Ruth 1:16-18 New International Version 16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, ...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionBoaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, “Who does that young woman belong to?”New Living TranslationThen Boaz asked his foreman, “Who is that young woman over there? Who does she belong to?”English Standard VersionThen Boaz said to his...
Ruth 3:1 tn The phrase “sometime later” does not appear in Hebrew but is supplied to mark the implicit shift in time from the events in chapter 2. Ruth 3:1 tn Heb“My daughter, should I not seek for you a resting place so that it may go well for you [or which will be good...
Ruth has already distinguished herself in the book by undertaking the role of honoring her mother-in-law by going into the field in chapter two to glean food. In biblical law, gleaning grain is the means by which the poor are sustained. What is surprising in this book is that Ruth exten...
GOD’SPROMISESFORYOU TheBookofRuth:chapter2 1.HowcanyoubecertainofGod’spromises? ! ! 2.WhatareGod’spromisesforyou? Forgiveness(1John1:7-9) EternalLife(John3:16) RelationshipwithGod(Galatians4:4-7) ConnectionwithOthers(Galatians3:27-28) ! Ruth2:1-3 ! 3.ThereisnewhopeforRuthandNaomi.Wh...
All the darkness of chapter 1 is gone. God has turned her mourning into dancing. “The Almighty has dealt bitterly with me” (1:20) has given way to “His kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead” (2:20). The lesson of chapters 1 and 2 is surely at least this: You ...
In chapter 1 Naomi and her husband and two sons were forced to leave their homeland in Judah on account of famine. Then Naomi’s husband dies. Her sons marry Moabite women and for ten years the women prove to be barren. And then her sons die leaving two widows in the house of Naomi...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionShe carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.New Living TranslationShe carried it back into town and showed it to...