Turn Back, My Daughters
Lesson 7
Questions in today’s lesson are taken from Ruth 1:11-22.
1. But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Are there still ______ in my ______ , that they may be your _______ ?
2. Turn back, my daughters, go—for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, if I should have a husband tonight and should also ____ ______ , would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands?
3.
No, my daughters; for it _______ me very much for your sakes
that the hand of the LORD has gone out _______ me!”
4.
Then
they lifted up their voices and _____ again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law,
but Ruth _______ to her.
5.
And
she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her ______ and to her
____ ; return after your sister-in-law.”
6. But Ruth said: “ Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your ______ shall be my ______ , And your ____, my ______ .
7. Where you ____ , I will _____ , And there will I be ______ . The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but _______ parts you and me.”
8.
When she saw that she was __________ to go with her, she stopped speaking to
her.
9. Now the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they had come to Bethlehem, that all the city was ______ because of them; and the women said, “Is this _____?”
10.
But
she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has
dealt very _____ with me. I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home
again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me,
and the Almighty has _______ me?”
11. So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. Now they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of _____ ________ .
12. Naomi said: "I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?” Thought question: Do you think that God had testified against her and afflicted her or was she just blaming God for her losses?
13. What grieved Naomi for her daughters -in-laws' sakes?
14. What did Naomi say that Orpah had returned home to?
15. What convinced Orpah to return to her home?
16. Naomi said: “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara,” Naomi means “Pleasant” What does Mara mean?
17. This lesson is about the heartrending peril of three widows. Please find passages which indicate God’s attitude toward widows.
18.
Find a verse or verses from anywhere in the Bible which tell what God wants our
attitude and action toward widows to be.