Ruth 1:5

Then both Mahlon and Kilion died, leaving Naomi without her husband and without her two children.

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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

4These sons took wives from the women of Moab; the name of one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there for about ten years.

6Then Naomi decided to leave Moab with her daughters-in-law and return to Judah because she had heard in the region of Moab that Yahweh had helped his people in need and had given them food.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I, even I, am God, 1 and that there is no god besides me; 1 I kill, and I make alive; 1 I wound, and I heal, 1 and there is no one who can save you from my might. 1

Isaiah 49:21Then you will ask yourself, 'Who has borne these children for me? 1 I was bereaved and barren, exiled and divorced. Who has raised these children? 1 Look, I was left all alone; where did these come from?'” 1

Matthew 22:25There were seven brothers. The first married and then died. Having left no children, he left his wife 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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