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<center><h1>Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary
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on the Whole Bible</h1>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Ruth</FONT></P>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC08001.HTM">Chapter 1</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC08002.HTM">Chapter 2</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC08003.HTM">Chapter 3</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC08004.HTM">Chapter 4</A>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE BOOK OF</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>R U T H.</B></FONT>
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This short history of the domestic affairs of one particular family
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fitly follows the book of Judges (the events related here happening in
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the days of the judges), and fitly goes before the books of Samuel,
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because in the close it introduces David; yet the Jews, in their
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Bibles, separate it from both, and make it one of the five
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<I>Megilloth,</I> or <I>Volumes,</I> which they put together towards
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the latter end, in this order: <I>Solomon's Song, Ruth, Lamentations,
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Ecclesiastes,</I> and <I>Esther.</I> It is probable that Samuel was the
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penman of it. It relates not miracles nor laws, wars nor victories, nor
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the revolutions of states, but the affliction first and afterwards the
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comfort of Naomi, the conversion first and afterwards the preferment of
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Ruth. Many such events have happened, which perhaps we may think as
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well worthy to be recorded; but these God saw fit to transmit the
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knowledge of to us; and even common historians think they have liberty
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to choose their subject. The design of this book is,
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I. To lead to providence, to show us how conversant it is about our
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private concerns, and to teach us in them all to have an eye to it,
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acknowledging God in all our ways and in all events that concern us.
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See
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Sa+2:7,8,Ps+113:7-9">1 Sam. ii. 7, 8; Ps. cxiii. 7-9</A>.
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II. To lead to Christ, who descended from Ruth, and part of whose
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genealogy concludes the book, whence it is fetched into
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Mt+1:5">Matt. i.</A>
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In the conversion of Ruth the Moabitess, and the bringing of her into
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the pedigree of the Messiah, we have a type of the calling of the
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Gentiles in due time into the fellowship of Christ Jesus our Lord. The
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afflictions of Naomi and Ruth we have an account of,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ru+1:1-22"><I>ch.</I> i.</A>
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Instances of their industry and humility,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ru+2:1-23"><I>ch.</I> ii.</A>
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The bringing of them into an alliance with Boaz,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ru+3:1-18"><I>ch.</I> iii.</A>
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And their happy settlement thereby,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ru+4:1-22"><I>ch.</I> iv.</A>
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And let us remember the scene is laid in Bethlehem, the city where our
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