Ruth 1:17

where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the LORD do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

In Context

16And Ruth said: 'Entreat me not to leave thee, and 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;

18And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking unto her.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 3:17And he said: 'What is the thing that He hath spoken unto thee? I pray thee, hide it not from me, God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that He spoke unto thee.'

2 Samuel 3:9God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as the LORD hath sworn to David, I do not even so to him;

2 Samuel 19:13(19-14) And say ye to Amasa: Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.'

1 Kings 19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying: 'So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time.'

2 Kings 6:31Then he said: 'God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.'

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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