The Pulpit Commentary on Ruth 1:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. So King James's version. The expression in the original is broken at the commencement: "And they said to her, For with thee we shall return to thy people."

It is as if they had said, "Do not insist on our return to our mothers' homes, for with thee we shall return to thy people." Note the expression, "we shall return, instead of "we shall go with thee in thy return to thy people."

For the moment they identify themselves with their mother-in-law, as if they had come with her from Judah.

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