Ruth 1:15
“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
14Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
Cross References
Numbers 10:30“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”
Joshua 24:19But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.
2 Samuel 15:19Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you also go with us? Go back and stay with the new king, since you are both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.
Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
Zephaniah 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot 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 →