Ruth 1:5

And Machlon and Kilyon died also both of them; and the isha was left (alive), surviving with neither her yeladim nor her ish.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4And they took them wives of the nashim (women) of Moav; the shem (name) of the one was Orpah, and the shem (name) of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about eser shanim (ten years).

6Then she arose with her kallot, that she might make teshuvah (return) from the sadei Moav: for in the sadeh of Moav she had heard how that Hashem had visited His people in giving them lechem (bread).

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I, even I, am He, 1 and there is no elohim besides Me: 1 I kill, and I make alive; 1 I wound, and I heal; 1 neither is there any that can deliver out of My hand. 1

Isaiah 49:21Then shalt thou say in thine lev: 1 Who hath begotten me these, 1 seeing I am shekhulah (bereaved) of my children, and am galmudah (barren, incapable of having children), 1 a captive of the Golus, and thrust away as rejected? 1 So who has reared these? 1 Behold I was left a lone survivor; 1 these, where were they? Where did they come from? 1

Matthew 22:25Now there were among us shiva achim (seven brothers), and the first, having married, died. And not having zera (offspring), left his isha to 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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