World English Bible
Ruth 1:17
“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.”
Ruth 1:17 in the King James Version
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.Read Ruth 1:17 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Ruth 1
She said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.
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;
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.
When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and the women said, "Is this Naomi?
Cross references for Ruth 1:17
- 1 Samuel 3:17
He said, "What is the thing that Yahweh has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you.
- 2 Samuel 19:13
Say to Amasa, 'Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.
- 2 Kings 6:31
Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day.
- 1 Kings 2:23
Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
- 1 Samuel 25:22
God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.
- 1 Kings 20:10
Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, "The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.
- 2 Samuel 3:35
All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.
- 1 Kings 19:2
Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!
- Acts 11:23
who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
- 2 Samuel 3:9
God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don't do even so to him;
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