Elimelech dies, and both of Naomi’s sons also die, leaving Naomi, Ruth, and Orpah …
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Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that [were] in the host.Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after [him] in whose sight I shall find grace. The other was named Ruth. [20] Hebrew Shaddai; also in verse 21 [21] Or has testified against And Naomi said unto her, The man [is] near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain [that is] outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.All these [were of] costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and [so] on the outside toward the great court.For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits [long] by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, [It is] good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed [be] the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.And the arches thereof [were] toward the outward court; and palm trees [were] upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it [had] eight steps.And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, [had] the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.I have made the earth, the man and the beast that [are] upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?
So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed [be] he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. Though the story takes its name from the younger woman, the older is the dominant character. - And she said to them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. After about ten years, tragedy strikes.
Day One Study Getting To Know Naomi And Ruth… 1. for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why [then] call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which [was] our brother Elimelech's:And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.And Boaz said unto the elders, and [unto] all the people, Ye [are] witnesses this day, that I have bought all that [was] Elimelech's, and all that [was] Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it [was] shut.So Gideon, and the hundred men that [were] with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that [were] in their hands.But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. As a caregiver, could that be why she was bitter with God for a time, because those He had given her to care for were taken from her by death? Bible topic categories and verse references are from Nave's Topical Bible (1896) by Orville James Nave (1841–1917).