Ruth 1:11
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| Overview - Ruth 1 | |
| 1 | Elimelech, driven by famine into Moab, dies there. |
| 4 | Mahlon and Chilion, having married wives of Moab, die also. |
| 6 | Naomi, returning homeward, |
| 8 | dissuades her two daughters-in-law from going with her. |
| 14 | Orpah leaves her, but Ruth with great constancy accompanies her. |
| 19 | They two come to Beth-lehem, where they are gladly received. |
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Ruth 1:11 (King James Version)
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
- are there
- This alludes to the custom that when a married brother died, without leaving posterity, his brother should take his widow; and the children of such marriages were accounted those of the deceased brother. This address of Naomi to her daughter-in-law is exceedingly tender, persuasive, and affecting.
- that they
- Genesis 38:11 ; Deuteronomy 25:5