Ruth 1:21
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I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, seeing Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageBethlehem was Naomi’s Judean hometown, the covenant community to which she returned after years away; her arrival there frames her sense of emptiness before the Lord. Moab lay east of the Dead Sea, where Naomi’s family had sought food during famine and where she lost her husband and sons.
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Ruth 1:21 mentions Bethlehem and Moab.
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