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... blessed Lord . And here , we may suppose , Elimelech and his family lived happily enough . They belonged to a people who were under God's special protection - the only people at that time who knew anything at all of the one true God ...
... blessed Lord . And here , we may suppose , Elimelech and his family lived happily enough . They belonged to a people who were under God's special protection - the only people at that time who knew anything at all of the one true God ...
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... blessings ! We possess the Bible , God's own word , to light us through this dark world . We have a Leader , greater than Moses , who has opened the gate of heaven to all true believers ; not a mere deliverer from earthly bondage , but ...
... blessings ! We possess the Bible , God's own word , to light us through this dark world . We have a Leader , greater than Moses , who has opened the gate of heaven to all true believers ; not a mere deliverer from earthly bondage , but ...
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... blessed mark upon our foreheads ! Woe unto us , if after all our privileges , and all our opportunities , we are weighed in the balance , and found wanting at last ! The Bible tells us that " to whom much is 8 THE FAMINE .
... blessed mark upon our foreheads ! Woe unto us , if after all our privileges , and all our opportunities , we are weighed in the balance , and found wanting at last ! The Bible tells us that " to whom much is 8 THE FAMINE .
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... God , at any moment , deal so with us ? Could He not , if He pleased , this very year , withdraw His blessing ? and then what would be the consequence ? Why , the ground would be sown ; but no corn would spring up 10 THE FAMINE .
... God , at any moment , deal so with us ? Could He not , if He pleased , this very year , withdraw His blessing ? and then what would be the consequence ? Why , the ground would be sown ; but no corn would spring up 10 THE FAMINE .
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... blessings , when God has given them to us . When , for instance , a person chooses a new home , how apt he is to reckon how far he will be a gainer in a worldly point of view , putting aside altogether his gain or loss in spiritual ...
... blessings , when God has given them to us . When , for instance , a person chooses a new home , how apt he is to reckon how far he will be a gainer in a worldly point of view , putting aside altogether his gain or loss in spiritual ...
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afflicted answered become Bethlehem better blessed Boaz bread bring brother called CHAPTER Christ comfort condition country of Moab daily daughter dead dear doubt earth earthly elders Elimelech eternity eyes famine Father feel felt field give glean God's gone grace hand happy hath heart heathen heaven hour husband inheritance interest Israel kindness kinsman knew labour land leave lifted living look Lord matter means meet morning mother mother-in-law Naomi never once Orpah pass peace perhaps poor prayer probably Reader redeem rest rich Ruth Ruth's Saviour seemed showed sons sorrow soul speak spiritual step stranger suffered sure thankful thee thine thing thou thou hast thought told true turned unto widow wife woman young
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Page 123 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Page 34 - Entreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee ; For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; Thy people shall be my people, And thy God, my God ; Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried ; The Lord do so to me, And more also, If aught but death part thee and me.
Page 58 - Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines : the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold : and there shall be no herd in the stalls ; Yet I will rejoice in the Lord : I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 43 - And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. 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...
Page 120 - Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's: and I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people.
Page 21 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword ? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Page 62 - ... It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 60 - 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.
Page 124 - And if the man like not to take •his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Page 128 - Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.