Matthew Poole and continuators on Ruth 4:11

11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders said, We are witnesses: The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house, like Rachel, and like Leah , which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah , and be famous in Bethlehem .

Amiable and Fruitful. Those two are singled out; partly because they were of a Foreign and Heathenish Original, and yet ingrafted into Gods people, as Ruth also was: and partly, because of that singular Fertility which God vouchsafed unto them above their Predecessors, Rachel and Leah. Rachel is placed before Leah, because she was his most Lawful, and only Intended, and Chosen, and best-Beloved Wife.

i. e. Increase the Posterity. See Gen. 16. 2. Exod. 1. 21.

Two Names of one and the same Place; of which see on Ruth 1. 2.

Two Names of one and the same Place; of which see on Ruth 1. 2.

Marginal references: Or, get [illegible: 1 word] riches, or, power.; Heb. proclaim thy name.