So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.
So the land had rest forty years. Then Othni-el the son of Kenaz died.
And they killed at that time about ten thousand of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred of the Philistines with an oxgoad; and he too delivered Israel.
“So perish all thine enemies, O Lord! But thy friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years.
The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion; they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.