Ruth 1:1-22

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ruth 1:21

I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?Full — With my husband and sons, and a plentiful estate for our support.Testified — That is, hath borne witness, as it were, in judgment, and given sentence against me. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 1:1

SOJOURN OF ELIMELECH’S FAMILY IN MOAB, Ruth 1:1-5. 1. When the judges ruled The age of the Judges extended from the death of Joshua’s generation unto the time of Samuel’s public resignation of his office at Gilgal, (1 Samuel 12:0,) when Saul was established king a period, according to the common chronology, of more than three hundred years. See Introduction to Judges. A famine in the land Perhaps that scarcity of food and suffering caused in the land of Israel by the seven years’... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 1:2

2. The names of this family are significant. Elimelech My God a king. Naomi My pleasantness. Compare Ruth 1:20. Mahlon Sickliness. Chilion Consumption. The sons were, perhaps, so named from having sickly constitutions, which resulted in their early death. Ephrathites so called from the more ancient name of their native place, Ephrath. The same Hebrew word is also used as synonymous with Ephraimite. See Jdg 12:4-5 ; 1 Samuel 1:1. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 1:4

4. They took them wives “A kind of phrase,” says Kitto, “which usually occurs in a bad sense, as done without the concurrence of their parents, or not left so entirely to them as custom required.” Of the women of Moab The law condemned intermarriages with the Canaanitish tribes, but, inasmuch as Israel and Moab were descended from kindred ancestors, Abraham and Lot, not with the daughters of the Moabites, (Deuteronomy 7:3;) it commanded, however, that no Moabite, even to the tenth... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 1:5

5. The woman was left of her two sons and her husband That is, she alone remained of the family that came from Beth-lehem. They emigrated from the land of their people to escape the miseries of famine, but in the plenteous land of Moab death overtook them. The Targum and the Jewish writers generally regard these deaths as a judgment on the family of Elimelech for seeking comfort among idolaters, and intermarrying with them. Generally, those who are easily induced by losses or difficulties... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 1:6

6. She arose with her daughters in law She made known to them her intention to return on foot and alone to the land of Israel; and when the time of her departure came, Orpah and Ruth arose and went forth with her to bear her company a little way on her journey, perhaps undecided whether to go all the way with her or not. She had heard Probably by some traveller that had recently passed through the land of Judea. But the tidings may not have reached her until several years after the... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 1:6-22

NAOMI’S RETURN WITH RUTH TO BETHLEHEM, Ruth 1:6-22. Bereft of her husband and her sons, the desolate Naomi turns her heart towards the land of her people. To her Moab has been a land of sorrows, and though the graves of her beloved dead are there, they are so full of bitter recollections that she wishes not to linger near them. The ten years of her sojourn in these sunny, fertile fields of abundance have been to her worse than years of famine. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 1:7

7. Her two daughters-in-law with her They would, as a matter of courtesy and love, accompany her a distance on her lonely journey. They went on the way They all three went along together, as if all were started for Beth-lehem; they felt a common sympathy and sorrow, and could not bear to be separated. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 1:8

8. Go, return Thus, at length, the tearful Naomi herself breaks the silence of their grief. She feels that she would wrong these daughters of Moab to take them with her where, in all probability, they would be shut up to lasting widowhood. Each to her mother’s house She says mother’s house rather than father’s, for it is maternal tenderness and sympathy that best knows how to comfort and cheer a daughter in her sorrows. As ye have dealt with the dead and with me Their life in Moab... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ruth 1:9

9. That ye may find rest That is, that ye may be happily married again, and thereby obtain relief from the bereavement and sorrows which now afflict you. The estate of holy matrimony is well called a state of rest, for the natural affections and propensities instinctively yearn for it, and in it alone find their lawful gratification. The Rabbins say: “The man is restless while he misses the rib that was taken out of his side; and the woman is restless till she gets under the man’s arm,... read more

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