Ruth 1:16-17

Ruth's Loyalty to Naomi

16 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. 17 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."

  1. 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.
  2. 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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