Ruth 1:2

A Conservative Version

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 Bethlehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

Cross References

Genesis 35:19

And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

Micah 5:2

But thou, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee he shall come forth to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

1 Samuel 17:21

And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

1 Samuel 1:1

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill-country of Ephraim. And his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, and Ephraimite.

Judges 3:30

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.

Judges 17:7

And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Ruth 1:3

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

Ruth 1:5

And Mahlon and Chilion died, both of them, and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.

Ruth 2:1

And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

Ruth 4:9

And Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi.

1 Samuel 17:12

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem-judah, whose name was Jesse. And he had eight sons, and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.