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Ruth 1:18

When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Daughter-In-Law;   Readings, Select;   Ruth;   Women;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mahlon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Israel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ruth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Naomi;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Certain;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ruth Rabbah;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for July 31;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped talking to her.
Hebrew Names Version
When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
King James Version
When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
Lexham English Bible
When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.
English Standard Version
And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.
New Century Version
When Naomi saw that Ruth had firmly made up her mind to go with her, she stopped arguing with her.
New English Translation
When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to dissuade her.
Amplified Bible
When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said nothing more.
New American Standard Bible
When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her about it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whe she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left speaking vnto her.
Legacy Standard Bible
So she saw that she was determined to go with her, and she said no more to her.
Contemporary English Version
When Naomi saw that Ruth had made up her mind to go with her, she stopped urging her to go back.
Complete Jewish Bible
When Na‘omi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more to her.
Darby Translation
And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
Easy-to-Read Version
Naomi saw that Ruth wanted very much to go with her. So Naomi stopped arguing with her.
George Lamsa Translation
When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, then she ceased from urging her to go back.
Good News Translation
When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said nothing more.
Literal Translation
And she saw that she had made herself strong to go with her; and she ceased to speak to her.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now whan she sawe, that she was stedfastly mynded to go with her, she spake nomore to her therof.
American Standard Version
And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking unto her.
Bible in Basic English
And when she saw that Ruth was strong in her purpose to go with her she said no more.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When she sawe that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left speaking vnto her.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking unto her.
King James Version (1611)
When shee sawe that shee was stedfastly minded to goe with her, then shee left speaking vnto her.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Noemin seeing that she was determined to go with her, ceased to speak to her any more.
English Revised Version
And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left speaking unto her.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Noemy siy, that Ruth hadde demyde with stidefast soule to go with hir, and sche nolde be ayens hir, nether counseile ferthere turnynge ayen `to her cuntrei men.
Young's Literal Translation
And she seeth that she is strengthening herself to go with her, and she ceaseth to speak unto her;
Update Bible Version
And when she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
Webster's Bible Translation
When she saw that she was steadfastly resolved to go with her, then she left speaking to her.
World English Bible
When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
New King James Version
When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her.
New Living Translation
When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said nothing more.
New Life Bible
When Naomi saw that Ruth would do nothing but go with her, she said no more to her.
New Revised Standard
When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more to her.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when she saw that, bravely determined, was she to go with her, she ceased entreating her.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Noemi seeing that Ruth was steadfastly determined to go with her, would not be against it, nor persuade her any more to return to her friends:
Revised Standard Version
And when Na'omi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.
THE MESSAGE
When Naomi saw that Ruth had her heart set on going with her, she gave in. And so the two of them traveled on together to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem the whole town was soon buzzing: "Is this really our Naomi? And after all this time!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more to her.

Contextual Overview

6When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab. 7Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah. 8Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you to your mother's home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me. 9May the LORD enable each of you to find security in the home of your new husband." And she kissed them as they wept aloud 10and said, "Surely we will return with you to your people." 11But Naomi replied, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands? 12Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons, 13would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me." 14Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. 15"Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

When: Acts 21:14

was stedfastly minded: Heb. strengthened herself, Acts 2:42, Ephesians 6:10

Reciprocal: Daniel 1:8 - purposed 1 Corinthians 15:58 - be ye Colossians 2:5 - and the

Cross-References

Psalms 19:6
It rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
Jeremiah 31:35
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and orders the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-the LORD of Hosts is His name:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her,.... That she was strong in her resolutions, and steadfast in her determinations not to go back to her own country, but to go forward with her; and nothing could move her from the firm purpose of her mind, which was what Naomi wanted to make trial of:

then she left speaking unto her: that is, upon that head of returning home; otherwise, no doubt, upon this a close, comfortable, religious conversation ensued, which made their journey the more pleasant and agreeable.


 
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