Ruth 1:3

While they were there, Elimelech died, and Naomi had only her two sons with her.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

In Context

2Because of the famine, they left Bethlehem and went east to live for a while in Moab region.

4They married women from Moab. One of them was named Orpah, and the other one was named Ruth. But after they had lived in that area for about ten years,

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Cross References

Psalms 34:19Righteous people may have many troubles, but Yahweh rescues them from all those troubles.

Hebrews 12:10Our natural fathers disciplined us for a short time in a way that they considered right, but it wasn’t always right, but God always disciplines us in a right way, to help us. He does it so that we may be holy as he is.

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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