And her husband arose
 From the place where he lived: 
 and went after her;
 to Bethlehemjudah, where her father lived: 
 to speak comfortably to her
 "or to her heart" F12; having heard perhaps that she repented of her sin, or if it was only upon a quarrel between them, his anger might cool and subside, and therefore sought for a reconciliation; and which was the more commendable in him, as he did not put her away, but she departed from him: and 
 to bring her again;
 to his own city, and to his own house and bed, as before: 
 having his servant with him, and a couple of asses;
 one of them for her to ride upon, and the other to carry provisions on: 
 and she brought him into her father's house;
 it seems she met with him before he came thither, in the fields, or in the street; and by this it appears that she was glad to see him, and received him in a loving manner, and introduced him into her father's house, so that things looked well, and promised success: 
 and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him;
 having a good opinion of him, and perhaps understood, even by his daughter's story, that she was most in fault, and therefore was well pleased to see him come after her; though he ought before this time to have sent her home, or sought for a reconciliation of her to her husband.