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Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Ruth 1:16

DECIDING FOR GOD Ruth 1:16 by C. H. Spurgeon “And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God” ( Ruth 1:16 ). This was a very brave, outspoken confession of faith. Please to notice that it was made by a woman, a young woman, a poor woman, a widow woman, and a foreigner. Remembering all that, I should think there is no condition... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ruth 1:1-22

Shall we turn now to the book of Ruth?As we were studying the book of Judges last week, we pointed out that at the end of chapter sixteen, the end of the story of Samson, you actually came to the end of the history part of the book of Judges. What followed in chapter seventeen and onto the end were a couple of incidents, or scenes, that took place during the time of the Judges, just to show that it was a time of spiritual confusion and moral decay as far as the nation was concerned. When the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ruth 1:1-22

Ruth 1:1 . When the judges ruled, about a hundred years before the birth of David. Famines were mostly occasioned by want of rain. Ruth 1:2 . Ephrathites; not Ephraimites, but of Ephrath, the old name of Bethlehem: Ruth 4:11. Genesis 35:19. The name of Elimelech’s wife was Naomi, beautiful. Ruth 1:20 . The Almighty. שׁדי Shaddai, the Almighty; the self-sufficient being can repair all my calamities. Ruth 1:22 . The barley harvest. See on Deuteronomy 11:14. REFLECTIONS. Famine... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ruth 1:6

Ruth 1:6She arose . . . that she might return. Homeward longingsObserve--1. God’s house of worldly correction is to God’s people a school of heavenly instruction. Naomi’s crosses and losses she met with in Moab made her soul to sit loose from that cursed country, and to long for Canaan--that blessed land of promise. God’s rod hath a voice (Micah 6:9), and now Naomi’s ear was open to hear the instruction of it (Job 36:8-10; Micah 2:10). It is a rich mercy when affliction brings us from worse... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ruth 1:7

Ruth 1:7Her two daughters-in-law with her.The promising commencementHere we have the most happy and promising commencement of a new work. We see them all set out together upon the same road and apparently for the same result. No one who saw them set out upon their journey could anticipate that they would voluntarily separate, or imagine that one was more likely than the other to reach the end proposed. We are obliged to wait until succeeding trials shall bring their real characters individually... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ruth 1:8

Ruth 1:8The Lord deal kindly with you. Naomi’s prayer for her daughters-in-lawI. That it is a duty to pray for those which do either us or ours good.II. That at parting friends are to pray one for another, as we may see the practice of it in Isaac (Genesis 28:1; Genesis 28:3); Laban (Genesis 31:55); Jacob (Genesis 43:14); and in Paul (Acts 20:36).III. That the godly are persuaded that the Lord is a merciful rewarder of the duties of love which one doth towards another (Colossians 3:24).IV. That... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ruth 1:9

Ruth 1:9The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.The rest of marriage1. Man’s Maker is the chief maker of all men and women’s marriages in the world. It is the work of God to provide an helpmeet for man, hence it is called the covenant of God (Proverbs 2:17), and therefore honourable to all (Hebrews 13:4). Religious Naomi looks up here unto God, saying in effect, “The Lord grant you good husbands.”Grace should be sought for, in the first place, in those... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ruth 1:10

Ruth 1:10Surely we will return with thee.Promises and purposesI. Promises of speech and purposes of heart, whether to God, to His church, or to individuals, ought to go hand in hand. If a man’s word does not express his meaning and bind him, nothing can.II. Promises and purposes often proceed from passion instead of principle.III. Promises and purposes proceeding merely from passion soon fall to the ground. “I go, sir,” one said in the Gospels, and “went not.” Some persons melting under the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ruth 1:11-13

Ruth 1:11-13It grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.Naomi’s parting addressThis is a great aggravation of the afflictions of many parents, that their children are involved with themselves. They could bear poverty, they could bear reproach, they could bear death itself, had they none who depended on them for bread and for respectability in the world. God has the same right to rule over the fruit of our bodies as over ourselves, and to allot to them... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ruth 1:14

Ruth 1:14Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth clave unto her.Orpah’s defectionI. Worldly respects are great hindrances in the course of godliness. The world keepeth from the entertaining of the truth (Matthew 22:5); it hindereth in the receiving of it.II. An unsound heart may for a time make a fair show in the way to Canaan, but yet turn back at the last, as Orpah doth here. And this is by reason, first, of certain motions of religion, which maketh them in general to approve of the same;... read more

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