Verse-by-Verse Bible CommentaryRuth 1:9
"May the LORD grant that you may find rest, each in the house of her husband." Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept. Jump to: Biblical Illustrator • Gill's Exposition • Geneva Study Bible • Commentary Critical and Explanatory • Trapp's Commentary • Poole's Annotations • Whedon's Commentary • Haydock's Catholic Commentary • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes • Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged • Ellicott's Commentary • Treasury of Knowledge Other Authors
The Biblical IllustratorRuth 1:9 The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. The rest of marriage 1. Man’s Maker is the chief maker of all men and women’s marriages in the world. It is the work of God to provide an helpmeet for man, hence it is called the covenant of God (Proverbs 2:17), and therefore honourable to all (Hebrews 13:4). Religious Naomi looks up here unto God, saying in effect, “The Lord grant you good husbands.”Grace should be sought for, in the first place, in those seven qualifications of good matches and marriages: grace, race, face, arts, parts, portion, proportion. 2. A married state is a state of rest. So it is called here and Ruth 3:1. Hence marriage is called the port or haven of young people, whose affections while unmarried are continually floating and tossed to and fro like a ship upon the waters, till they come into this happy harbour. There is a natural propension in most persons towards nuptial communion, as all created beings have a natural tendency to their proper centre, and are restless out of it. (C. Ness.) Rest in marriage If it is to be wished that wives may find rest in the houses of their husbands, it must be the duty of husbands to do what they can to procure them rest, not only by endeavouring to provide for them what is necessary for their subsistence and comfortable accommodation, but by such a kind behaviour as will promote their satisfaction and comfort. Men and women may have affluence without rest, and rest without affluence. But let women also contribute to procure rest for themselves by frugality, by industry, by such behaviour to their husbands as will merit constant returns of kindness. (G. Lawson.) Copyright Statement Bibliography John Gill's Exposition of the Whole BibleThe Lord grant you,.... Some make a supplement here, the Targum a perfect reward, Aben Ezra an husband; and so Josephus says that you may find rest; each of you: in the house of her husband; that is, that they might each of them be blessed with a good husband, with whom they might live free from brawls and contentions, as well as from the distressing cares of life, having husbands to provide all things necessary for them, and so from all the sorrows and distresses of a widowhood estate: then she kissed them; in token of her affection for them, and in order to part with them; it being usual then as now for relations and friends to kiss at parting: and they lifted up their voice and wept; to think they must part, and never see one another more; their passions worked vehemently, and broke out in sobs, and sighs, and tears, and loud crying. Copyright Statement Bibliography Geneva Study BibleThe LORD grant you that ye may find e rest, each [of you] in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.(e) By this it appears that Naomi by dwelling among idolaters, had become cold to the true zeal of God, having more respect for the comfort of the body than the comfort of the soul. Copyright Statement Bibliography Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole BibleThe Lord grant you that ye may find rest — enjoy a life of tranquillity, undisturbed by the cares, encumbrances, and vexatious troubles to which a state of widowhood is peculiarly exposed. Then she kissed them — the Oriental manner when friends are parting. Copyright Statement Bibliography John Trapp Complete CommentaryRuth 1:9 The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each [of you] in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept. Ver. 9. The Lord grant you, that ye may find rest,] i.e., The Lord give you good husbands - [Ruth 3:2-9] - with whom you may live contentedly and comfortably. God is the chief marriage maker: but now-a-days, Dowry not God { Dos, non Deus:} and it proveth accordingly. Bag and baggage go oft together, &c.
And they lifted up their voice, and wept.] And so answered the kindness of her kiss. See 1 Samuel 20:41, Acts 20:37. Copyright Statement Bibliography Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy BibleRest, i.e. a quiet and happy life, free from those cares, vexations, encumbrances, and troubles which widows are in a special manner exposed unto. She kissed them, as the manner there was when friends parted. Copyright Statement Bibliography Whedon's Commentary on the Bible9. That ye may find rest — That is, that ye may be happily married again, and thereby obtain relief from the bereavement and sorrows which now afflict you. The estate of holy matrimony is well called a state of rest, for the natural affections and propensities instinctively yearn for it, and in it alone find their lawful gratification. The Rabbins say: “The man is restless while he misses the rib that was taken out of his side; and the woman is restless till she gets under the man’s arm, from whence she was taken.” She kissed them — With such kisses as only a tender mother could imprint upon the objects of her lost sons’ love. But those kisses bound them to her so that they could not tear themselves asunder. Copyright Statement Bibliography George Haydock's Catholic Bible CommentaryTake. She proposes marriage to them, as a state more suitable to their years, (Haydock) and wishes that they may experience none of its solicitudes, (1 Corinthians vii. 28,) but be constantly protected by their husbands. Widows are exposed to many difficulties. (Menochius) Copyright Statement Bibliography E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notesrest. Compare Ruth 3:1. A characteristic word in this Book. Copyright Statement Bibliography Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - UnabridgedThe LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept. The Lord grant you that ye may find rest - enjoy a life of tranquility undisturbed by the cares, incumbrances, and vexatious troubles to which a state of widowhood is peculiarly exposed. Then she kissed them - the Oriental manner when friends are parting. Copyright Statement Bibliography Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) The Lord grant you . . .—A twofold blessing is invoked by Naomi on her daughters-in-law, made the more solemn by the twofold mention of the sacred name Jehovah. She prays first for the general blessing, that God will show them mercy, and secondly for the special blessing, that they may find rest and peace in a new home. Copyright Statement Bibliography Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeThe LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
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