Ruth 1:5
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| Overview - Ruth 1 | |
| 1 | Elimelech, driven by famine into Moab, dies there. |
| 4 | Mahlon and Chilion, having married wives of Moab, die also. |
| 6 | Naomi, returning homeward, |
| 8 | dissuades her two daughters-in-law from going with her. |
| 14 | Orpah leaves her, but Ruth with great constancy accompanies her. |
| 19 | They two come to Beth-lehem, where they are gladly received. |
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Ruth 1:5 (King James Version)
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
- A
- M. 2696. B.C. 1308. An. Ex. Is. 183. Mahlon.
- Deuteronomy 32:39 ; Psalms 89:30-32 ; Jeremiah 2:19
- died
- The Targum adds, "And because they transgressed the decree of the word of the Lord, and joined affinity with strange people, therefore their days were cut off."
- and the woman
- Isaiah 49:21 ; Matthew 22:25-27 ; Luke 7:12