Ruth 1:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.

Gone back

Her gods

Judges 11:24

Return

Luke 24:28

General references

Numbers 10:30

Deuteronomy 4:4

Bible References

Gone back

The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways [in unresponsiveness to God],
The Lord will lead them away with those who do evil.
Peace be upon Israel.

And those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And those who have not sought the Lord [as their most important need] or inquired of Him.”

The one on whom seed was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and at once welcomes it with joy;

But My righteous one [the one justified by faith] shall live by faith [respecting man’s relationship to God and trusting Him];
And if he draws back [shrinking in fear], My soul has no delight in him.

They went out from us [seeming at first to be Christians], but they were not really of us [because they were not truly born again and spiritually transformed]; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out [teaching false doctrine], so that it would be clearly shown that none of them are of us.

Her gods

Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And everything that the Lord our God dispossessed before us, we will possess.

Return

If it is unacceptable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you go with us, too? Go back and stay with the king [of your own country], for you are a foreigner and an exile as well; return to your own place.

And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.” But Elisha replied, “As the Lord lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God]—he cannot be My disciple.

Then they approached the village where they were going, and He acted as if He were going farther.

General references

But Hobab [Moses’ brother-in-law] said to him, “I will not go; I will return to my own land and to my family.”

but you who held tightly to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.