Ruth 1:17
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me harshly if I let anything but death separate us!”
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18When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped telling Ruth to go home.
Cross References
1 Samuel 3:17“What did he tell you?” Eli asked. “Don't hide it from me. May God punish you very severely if you hide anything he told you from me!”
2 Samuel 3:9So now may God punish me severely if I don't help David achieve what the Lord has promised him.
2 Samuel 19:13Tell Amasa, ‘Aren't you my flesh and blood too? May God punish me very severely if from now on you're not the commander of my army instead of Joab!’”
1 Kings 19:2Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods do as much to me and more if by tomorrow I haven't made your life like the lives of those you killed!”
2 Kings 6:31“May God punish me very severely if the head of Elisha, son of Shaphat, remains on his shoulders today!” he declared.
Acts 20:24But I don't consider my life as worth anything to me. I only want to finish my mission and the ministry that the Lord Jesus gave to me, to witness to the good news of the grace of God.
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 →