Ruth 1:5

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

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And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.

In Context

4who married Moabite women named Orpah and Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years,

6So she set out with her daughters-in-law to return from the land of Moab, for she had heard that the Lord had remembered his people and given them food.

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Cross References

Matthew 22:25Now we had living among us seven brothers; of whom the eldest married and died, and, as he had no family, left his wife for his brother.

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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