Ruth 4:15

He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. Indeed, your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

1 Samuel 1:8

“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why are you troubled? Am I not better to you than 10 sons?”

Genesis 45:11

There I will sustain you, for there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you, your household, and everything you have will become destitute.”’

Genesis 47:12

And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food for their dependents.

Ruth 1:16-18

But Ruth replied:

Do not persuade me to leave you
or go back and not follow you.
For wherever you go, I will go,
and wherever you live, I will live;
your people will be my people,
and your God will be my God.

Ruth 2:11-12

Boaz answered her, “Everything you have done for your mother-in-law since your husband’s death has been fully reported to me: how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you didn’t previously know.

Psalm 55:22

Cast your burden on the Lord,
and He will sustain you;
He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.

Proverbs 18:24

A man with many friends may be harmed,
but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.


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Isaiah 46:4

I will be the same until your old age,
and I will bear you up when you turn gray.
I have made you, and I will carry you;
I will bear and save you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

For thy

Bible References

A nourisher, etc

Genesis 45:11
There I will sustain you, for there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you, your household, and everything you have will become destitute.”’
Genesis 47:12
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food for their dependents.
Psalm 55:22
Cast your burden on the Lord,
and He will sustain you;
He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
Isaiah 46:4
I will be the same until your old age,
and I will bear you up when you turn gray.
I have made you, and I will carry you;
I will bear and save you.

For thy

Ruth 1:16
But Ruth replied:

Do not persuade me to leave you
or go back and not follow you.
For wherever you go, I will go,
and wherever you live, I will live;
your people will be my people,
and your God will be my God.

Better

1 Samuel 1:8
“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why are you troubled? Am I not better to you than 10 sons?”
Proverbs 18:24
A man with many friends may be harmed,
but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.


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