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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

路得记 1:3

後來拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒去世了,留下她和兩個兒子。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bereavement;   Elimelech;   Readings, Select;   Widow;   Thompson Chain Reference - Widows;   Women;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mahlon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Elimelech;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Moab and the Moabite Stone;   Ruth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Naomi;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem ;   Elimelech ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Certain;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Chil'lon;   Elim'elech;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Moab;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for August 1;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
後 来 拿 俄 米 的 丈 夫 以 利 米 勒 死 了 , 剩 下 妇 人 和 他 两 个 儿 子 。

Contextual Overview

1 Long ago when the judges ruled Israel, there was a shortage of food in the land. 2 So a man named Elimelech left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons. His wife was named Naomi, and his two sons were named Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathahites from Bethlehem in Judah. When they came to Moab, they settled there. 3 Then Naomi's husband, Elimelech, died, and she was left with her two sons. 4 These sons married women from Moab. One was named Orpah, and the other was named Ruth. Naomi and her sons had lived in Moab about ten years 5 when Mahlon and Kilion also died. So Naomi was left alone without her husband or her two sons.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and she was: 2 Kings 4:1, Psalms 34:19, Hebrews 12:6, Hebrews 12:10, Hebrews 12:11

Cross-References

Job 36:30
Watch how God scatters his lightning around him, lighting up the deepest parts of the sea.
Job 38:19
"What is the path to light's home, and where does darkness live?
Psalms 33:6
The sky was made at the Lord 's command. By the breath from his mouth, he made all the stars.
Psalms 33:9
He spoke, and it happened. He commanded, and it appeared.
Psalms 97:11
Light shines on those who do right; joy belongs to those who are honest.
Psalms 104:2
you wear light like a robe. You stretch out the skies like a tent.
Psalms 118:27
The Lord is God, and he has shown kindness to us. With branches in your hands, join the feast. Come to the corners of the altar.
Psalms 148:5
Let them praise the Lord , because they were created by his command.
Isaiah 45:7
I made the light and the darkness. I bring peace, and I cause troubles. I, the Lord , do all these things.
Isaiah 60:19
The sun will no longer be your light during the day nor will the brightness from the moon be your light, because the Lord will be your light forever, and your God will be your glory.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died,.... According to Josephus x, after he had dwelt in the land ten years, and had married his two sons to Moabitish women; but, as Alshech observes, the text shows that while he was living they were not married to them, but after his death; and it is said of them only that they dwelt there about ten years; so that it is most probable that their father died quickly after he came into the land of Moab: and she was left, and her two sons; in a strange land, she without a husband, and they without a father.

x Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 9. sect. 1.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 1:3. Elimelech - died — Probably a short time after his arrival in Moab.


 
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