Ruth 1:5 BSB — MannaFest

Ruth 1:5

both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them,.... As well as their father, in the land of Moab, after they had lived with their wives in it about ten years; the Targum is,"because they transgressed the decree of the Word of the Lord, and joined in affinity with strange people, their days were cut off;''or shortened: and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband; deprived both of her husband and her sons, which was a great affliction, aggravated by her being in a strange country; many are the afflictions of the righteous.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּמ֥וּתוּ	vai.ya.Mu.tu	and they died	H4191 →
גַם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
שְׁנֵיהֶ֖ם	she.nei.Hem	both of them	H8147 →
מַחְל֣וֹן	mach.Lon	Mahlon	H4248 →
וְכִלְי֑וֹן	ve.khil.Yon	and Kilion	H3630 →
וַתִּשָּׁאֵר֙	va.ti.sha.'Er	and she was left	H7604 →
הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה	ha.'i.Shah	the woman	H802 →
מִשְּׁנֵ֥י	mi.she.Nei	from both	H8147 →
יְלָדֶ֖יהָ	ye.la.Dei.ha	children her	H3206 →
וּמֵאִישָֽׁהּ׃	u.me.'i.Shah	and from husband her	H376 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My…
leads to
- 1 Samuel 2:6
  The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
- Hosea 6:1
  Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
- Job 5:18
  For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- Isaiah 45:5
  I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,
- Isaiah 45:22
  Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
Through
Jeremiah 2:19
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear…
leads to
- Isaiah 3:9
  The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.
- Jeremiah 2:17
  Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
- Psalms 36:1
  An oracle is in my heart regarding the transgression of the wicked man: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

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