Ruth 1:19-21

So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?"  "Don't call me Naomi," she told them. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me."

 

So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem

Ruth 1:1  In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.

1 Samuel 17:12  Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons and in Saul's time he was very old.  

Micah 5:2  "But you Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times."

Matthew 2:1  After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem ...

When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them 

Matthew 21:10  When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, "Who is this?"

Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter 

Job 5:17  "Blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty."

Job 6:4  "The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God's terrors are marshaled against me."

Psalm 91:1  Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty 

Job 1:21  ... "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised."

The LORD has afflicted me 

Job 30:11  "Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence."

Psalm 88:7  Your wrath lies heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.

Isaiah 53:4  Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him and afflicted.

 

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