10And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-18)See here, I. The good affection Naomi bore to the land of Israel, Ruth 1:6. Though she could not stay in it while the famine lasted, she would not stay out of it when the famine ceased. Though the country of Moab had afforded her shelter and supply in a time of need, yet she did not intend it should be her rest for ever; no land should be that but the holy land, in which the sanctuary of God was,…
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