Why should you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. And they said to her, "No, but we will surely return with you to your people." But Naomi said, "Return, my daughters. 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.
May the Lord deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me. And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother's house. So she departed from the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the land of Moab, for she had heard in the land of Moab that the Lord had visited His people in giving them food. Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was bereft of her two children and her husband. They took for themselves Moabite women as wives the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. Then Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died and she was left with her two sons. Now they entered the land of Moab and remained there. The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons. The Cord of Kindness Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that there was a famine in the land. The first of these is seen as the story unfolds.ġ. In this short book we see the five cords of love that help bind two people together in a loving relationship despite many obstacles. The book of Ruth is a wonderful story of the love and devotion of a young woman who becomes a widow and takes care of her mother-in-law (who is also widowed) at great cost to herself. In my view, there are five cords of love that keep relationships together and these are described in the book of Ruth. I call these elements "the cords of love" based on Solomon's proverb where he says that, "a cord of three strands is not easily broken" ( Ecclesiastes 4:9-12). All of us are in a relationship of some kind and we usually want it to work, no matter what kind of relationship it is:Įvery relationship needs certain elements in order to succeed and flourish.
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