Ruth 1:17
Where you die I die, and there I am buried; thus does YHWH to me, and thus He adds—for death itself parts between me and you.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
18And she sees that she is strengthening herself to go with her, and she ceases to speak to her;
Cross References
1 Samuel 3:17And he says, “What [is] the word which He has spoken to you? Please do not hide it from me; so God does to you, and so does He add, if you hide from me a word of all the words that He has spoken to you.”
2 Samuel 3:9Thus God does to Abner, and thus He adds to him, surely as YHWH has sworn to David—surely so I do to him:
2 Samuel 19:13And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? Thus God does to me, and thus He adds, if you are not head of the host before me instead of Joab [for] all the days.”
1 Kings 19:2and Jezebel sends a messenger to Elijah, saying, “Thus the gods do, and thus do they add—surely about this time tomorrow, I make your life as the life of one of them.”
2 Kings 6:31And he says, “Thus God does to me and thus He adds, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on him this day.”
Acts 20:24but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify [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 →