Ruth 1:2

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

The name of the man was Elimelekh, and the name of his wife Na`omi 1, and the name of his two sons Machlon and Kilyon, Efratites of Beit-Lechem-Yehudah. They came into the country of Mo'av, and continued there.

Cross References

Genesis 35:19

Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Efrat (the same is Beit-Lechem).

Micah 5:2

But you, Beit-Lechem Efratah, being small among the clans of Yehudah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Yisra'el; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

Judges 17:7

There was a young man out of Beit-Lechem-Yehudah, of the family of Yehudah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

Judges 3:30

So Mo'av was subdued that day under the hand of Yisra'el. The land had rest eighty years.

Ruth 1:3

Elimelekh, Na`omi 1's husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.

Ruth 1:5

Machlon and Kilyon died both of them; and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.

Ruth 2:1

Na`omi 1 had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelekh, and his name was Bo`az.

Ruth 4:9

Bo`az said to the elders, and to all the people, You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelekh's, and all that was Kilyon's and Machlon's, of the hand of Na`omi 1.

1 Samuel 1:1

Now there was a certain man of Ramatayim-Tzofim, of the hill country of Efrayim, and his name was Elkana, the son of Yerocham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tochu, the son of Tzuf, an Efratite:

1 Samuel 17:12

Now David was the son of that Efratite of Beit-Lechem-Yehudah, whose name was Yishai; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Sha'ul, stricken [in years] among men.

1 Samuel 17:21

Yisra'el and the Pelishtim put the battle in array, army against army.