Ruth 1:19

So the two of them walked on until they reached Bethlehem. When they arrived there, the whole town got excited. “Is this Naomi?” the women asked.

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In The King James Version

So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?

In Context

18When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped telling Ruth to go home.

20She said to them, “Don't call me Naomi! Call me Mara, for the Almighty has treated me very bitterly.

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Cross References

Ruth 2:6“The young woman is a Moabite who came back with Naomi from Moab,” the servant replied.

Isaiah 23:7Is this really your triumphant city, whose beginnings are from the distant past, who has sent out people to colonize faraway places?

Matthew 21:10When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, the whole city was in an uproar. “Who is this?” they were asking.

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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