Verse 15

He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him."

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 1:8 : 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"
• Ps 55:22 : 22 Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
• Prov 18:24 : 24 A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
• Isa 46:4 : 4 and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
• Gen 45:11 : 11 There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'
• Gen 47:12 : 12 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
• Ruth 1:16-18 : 16 Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; 17 where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me." 18 When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
• Ruth 2:11-12 : 11 Boaz answered her, "It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before. 12 May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge."