Ruth 1:3

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.

Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

Hebrews 12:6

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.*

Ruth 1:2

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.

Ruth 1:4

They took them wives of the women of Mo'av; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Rut: and they lived there about ten years.