15 occurrences

'Back' in the Bible

So she and her daughters-in-law got ready to go back from the country of Moab, for news had come to her in the country of Moab that the Lord, in mercy for his people, had given them food.

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldDaughters In LawGod Visiting

And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on their way to go back to the land of Judah.

Verse ConceptsDaughters In Law

And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go back to your mothers' houses: may the Lord be good to you as you have been good to the dead and to me:

Verse ConceptsKindnessMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A Mother

And they said to her, No, but we will go back with you to your people.

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands?

Verse ConceptsAbortionGoing TogetherConceptionWaiting Till Marriage

Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons,

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfLimitations Of Old PeopleConceptionNot MarryingWaiting Till Marriage

And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.

Verse ConceptsMothers, Examples Of

But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God.

Verse ConceptsBest friendIntimacyFriendship, Examples OfProselytesYou Are Our GodWalking In Love

I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?

Verse ConceptsemptinessLossPessimismEmpty PeopleFilling PeopleTragedy

So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her; and they came to Beth-lehem in the first days of the grain-cutting.

Verse ConceptsBarleyGrainHarvestAutumnIndividuals going home

And the servant who was in authority over the cutters said, It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab;

And he said, Take your robe, stretching it out in your hands: and she did so, and he took six measures of grain and put them into it, and gave it her to take: and she went back to the town.

Verse ConceptsSix ThingsOther Volume Measures

And when she came back her mother-in-law said to her, How did it go with you, my daughter? And she gave her an account of all the man had done to her.

Verse ConceptsWhat Manner?

And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.

Verse ConceptsSix ThingsEmpty HandedOther Volume Measures

Then he said to the near relation, Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is offering for a price that bit of land which was our brother Elimelech's:

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingReal EstateCommerce

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