Daughter-in-law

How Nave’s arranged it

• FILIAL
• INSTANCE OF, RuthRuth 1:11–18Ruth 4:15
• UNFILIAL
• Prophecy ofMicah 7:6Matthew 10:35

The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Ruth 1:11–18

   But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?

   ›Commentary on Ruth 1:11–182 voices

   “And Naomi said, turn again, my daughters,....

   “See marginal references and notes. The Levirate law probably existed among the Moabites, and in Israel extended beyond the brother in the strict sense, and applied to the nearest relations, since Boaz was only the kinsman of Elimelech Rth 3:12.

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2. Ruth 4:15

   He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

   ›Commentary on Ruth 4:152 voices

   “The bonds of love prove stronger than those of nature, and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother; so here there was a daughter-in-law better than an own child. See what wisdom and grace will do. Now here, (1.) The child is named by the neighbours,

   “Thy life - That is, of the comfort of thy life. Born him - Or, hath born to him; that is, to thy kinsman a son. Better than seven sons - See how God sometimes makes up the want of those relations from whom we expected most comfort, in those from whom we expected least!

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3. Micah 7:6

   For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

   ›Commentary on Micah 7:62 voices

   “(Verse 5-7) Your day of reckoning has come, your visitation is here. Now there will be destruction: do not trust your friend, and do not rely on your leader. Guard the doors of your mouth against the one who lies in your bosom; for a son insults his father, and a daughter rises up against her mother; a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and enemies are those of a man's own household. But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for God, my savior; my God will hear me.

   “Just what is the work of the axe? The excision of the soul that is incurably fruitless, like the tree even after the dung has been applied. And what does the sword do? The sword of the Word cuts through defenses. It does the work of separating the worse from the better. It actually creates a division between the faithful and the unbeliever. It may even stir up the son and the daughter and the bride against the father and the mother and the mother-in-law, the young and fresh against the old and shadowy.

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4. Matthew 10:35

   For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

   ›Commentary on Matthew 10:352 voices

   “(Verse 35) For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's enemies will be those of his own household. This passage is written in almost the same words in the prophet Micah (Micah 7). And it should be noted whenever a testimony from the Old Testament is presented, whether the meaning alone or also the wording agrees.

   “For I am come to set a man at variance against,.... Or "to divide a man from his father".

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