Verse 15

He will encourage you and provide for you when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given him birth. She is better to you than seven sons!”

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 1:8 : 8 Then her husband Elkanah said to her,“Hannah, why are you crying and why won’t you eat? Why are you so upset? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
• Ps 55:22 : 22 Throw your burden upon the LORD, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the godly to be shaken.
• Prov 18:24 : 24 There are companions who harm one another, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
• Isa 46:4 : 4 Even when you are old, I will take care of you, even when you have gray hair, I will carry you. I made you and I will support you; I will carry you and rescue you.
• Gen 45:11 : 11 I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor– you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.”’
• Gen 47:12 : 12 Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.
• Ruth 1:16-18 : 16 But Ruth replied,“Stop urging me to abandon you! For wherever you go, I will go. Wherever you live, I will live. Your people will become my people, and your God will become my God. 17 Wherever you die, I will die– and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me severely if I do not keep my promise! Only death will be able to separate me from you!” 18 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to dissuade her.
• Ruth 2:11-12 : 11 Boaz replied to her,“I have been given a full report of all that you have done for your mother-in-law following the death of your husband– how you left your father and your mother, as well as your homeland, and came to live among people you did not know previously. 12 May the LORD reward your efforts! May your acts of kindness be repaid fully by the LORD God of Israel, from whom you have sought protection!”