Ruth 1:4

The sons married Moabite women. One was called Orpah, the other was called Ruth. After about ten years,

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And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.

In Context

3However, Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.

5both Mahlon and Chilion died. Naomi was left alone, without her two sons or her husband.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:3No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants are allowed to enter the Lord's sanctuary, up to the tenth generation.

Nehemiah 13:23Around the same time I realized some Jews had married women from Ashdod, Moab, and Ammon.

Matthew Henry on Ruth 1:2-6

Ruth This short history of the domestic affairs of one particular family fitly follows the book of Judges (the events related here happening in the days of the judges), and fitly goes before the books of Samuel, because in the close it introduces David; yet the Jews, in their Bibles, separate it from both, and make it one of the five Megilloth, or Volumes, which they put together towards the latter end, in this order: Solomon's Song, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther. It is probable that Samuel was the… Read the whole commentary →

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