Ruth 2:11-12 Part 1 of 2

Boaz replied, "I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband--how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge."

 

I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law

Ruth 1:14  At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

Ruth 1:18  When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

since the death of your husband 

Ruth 1:4b-5  After they had lived there about ten years, both Mahlon and  Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.

how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before 

Isaiah 55:5  "Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations you do not know will come running to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor."

Ruth 1:16-17  But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me."

May you be richly rewarded by the LORD 

1 Samuel 24:19  "When a man finds his enemy, does he let him get away unharmed? May the LORD reward you well for the way you treated me today."

1 Samuel 26:23-25  "The LORD rewards everyone for their righteousness and faithfulness. The LORD delivered you into my hands today, but I would not lay a hand on the LORD's anointed. As surely as I value your life today, so may the LORD value my life and deliver me from all trouble." Then Saul said to David, "May you be blessed, David my son; you will do great things and surely triumph."

Psalm 18:20  The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.

 

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