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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Ruth 1 This chapter treats of a family that removed from the land of Canaan to the land of Moab on account of a famine, where the father of it and his two sons died, and each of them left a widow, Ruth 1:1 the mother-in-law proposed to return to her own country, and set forward with her two daughters-in-law, whom, when they had gone a little way with her, she entreated to go back,...
John Gill
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them,.... As well as their father, in the land of Moab, after they had lived with their wives in it about ten years; the Targum is, "because they transgressed the decree of the Word of the Lord, and joined in affinity with strange people, their days were cut off;'' or shortened: and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband; deprived both of her...
Matthew Henry
Elimelech and Naomi; Death of Elimelech and His Sons. (b. c. 1312.) 1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. 2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband. That seemed to be her great grief—that she was left. She would have been content to go with them, but she was left to mourn their loss.