Ruth 1:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ But Elimelech, who Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.

Common English Bible

³ But Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died. Then only she was left, along with her two sons.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And Elimelech the husband of Naomi died; and she remained with her sons.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died: and she remained with her sons.

Ruth 1:3 Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead: and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.

Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: But the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Hebrews 12:6

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Ruth 1:2

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, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

Ruth 1:4

And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.