Ruth 1:15

And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.

In Context

14Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.

16But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God.

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Cross References

Numbers 10:30But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to the land of my birth and to my relations.

Joshua 24:19And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.

2 Samuel 15:19Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why are you coming with us? go back and keep with the king: for you are a man of another country, you are far from the land of your birth.

Psalms 36:3\36:2\For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

Zephaniah 1:6And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

Luke 14:26And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

Matthew Henry on Ruth 1:7-19

Naomi Returns to Canaan; Naomi and Her Daughters-in-Law; Ruth's Constancy to Naomi. ( b. c. 1312.) 6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread. 7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah. 8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to… Read the whole commentary →

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