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.
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Gill's Exposition
And she said,.... That is, Naomi to Ruth, after Orpah was gone:
behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods; meaning Orpah, who was the wife of her husband's brother,…
Adam Clarke
Gone back - unto her gods - They were probably both idolaters, their having been proselytes is an unfounded conjecture. Chemosh was the grand idol of the Moabites. The conversion of Ruth probably…
See here, I. The good affection Naomi bore to the land of Israel, Rut 1:6. Though she could not stay in it while the famine lasted, she would not stay out of it when the famine ceased. Though the…
Cambridge Bible
unto her people, and unto her god i.e. Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, Num 21:29; 1Ki 11:33. The ancient belief here receives its simplest expression: each land and people had its own Deity…
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