Ruth 4:15

Modern English Version

He will be a comfort for your soul and support you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

Cross References

Genesis 45:11

I will provide for you there, for there are still five years of famine to come, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.” ’

Genesis 47:12

Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and his father’s entire household, according to the number of their children.

Psalm 55:22

Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Proverbs 18:24

A man of many friends may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Isaiah 46:4

And even to your old age I am He, and even to your graying years I will carry you; I have done it, and I will bear you; I will carry, and will deliver you.

Ruth 4:16

Then Naomi took the child, laid him on her lap, and became his nurse.

1 Samuel 1:8

Then said Elkanah her husband to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? And why do you not eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

1 Samuel 2:5

Those that were full have hired out themselves for bread, and those that were hungry ceased to hunger. Even the barren has borne seven, and she that has many children wastes away.