Ruth 1:11-17
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But Naomi said, "Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb j that they may become your husbands?
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Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons,
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would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that k the hand of the Lord has gone out against me."
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Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
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And she said, "See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to l her gods; return after your sister-in-law."
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But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. m Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
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Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. n May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you."
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Cross References
Genesis 38:11
Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up" - for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father's house.
Deuteronomy 25:5
If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
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Cross References
Judges 2:15
Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.
Job 19:21
Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
Psalms 32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
Psalms 38:2
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
Psalms 39:10
Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
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Cross References
Judges 11:24
Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.
1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 48:7
For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials.
Jeremiah 48:13
Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
Jeremiah 48:46
Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity.
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Cross References
Ruth 2:11 - 12
But Boaz answered her, "All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.
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Cross References
1 Samuel 3:17
And Eli said, "What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also if you hide anything from me of all that he told you.
1 Samuel 25:22
God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.
2 Samuel 19:13
And say to Amasa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.'
1 Kings 2:23
Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, "God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life!
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