Ruth 4:15

He will encourage you and provide for you when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given him birth. She is better to you than seven sons!"

1 Samuel 1:8

Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"

Genesis 45:11

I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor -- you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you."'

Genesis 47:12

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father's household, according to the number of their little children.

Ruth 1:16-18

But Ruth replied, "Stop urging me to abandon you! For wherever you go, I will go. Wherever you live, I will live. Your people will become my people, and your God will become my God.

Ruth 2:11-12

Boaz replied to her, "I have been given a full report of all that you have done for your mother-in-law following the death of your husband -- how you left your father and your mother, as well as your homeland, and came to live among people you did not know previously.

Psalm 55:22

Throw your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the godly to be upended.

Proverbs 18:24

A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Isaiah 46:4

Even when you are old, I will take care of you, even when you have gray hair, I will carry you. I made you and I will support you; I will carry you and rescue you.

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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
I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor -- you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you."'
Genesis 47:12
Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father's household, according to the number of their little children.
Psalm 55:22
Throw your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the godly to be upended.
Isaiah 46:4
Even when you are old, I will take care of you, even when you have gray hair, I will carry you. I made you and I will support you; I will carry you and rescue you.

For thy

Ruth 1:16
But Ruth replied, "Stop urging me to abandon you! For wherever you go, I will go. Wherever you live, I will live. Your people will become my people, and your God will become my God.

Better

1 Samuel 1:8
Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"
Proverbs 18:24
A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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