路得记 1:4

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們娶了摩押女子作妻子，一個名叫俄耳巴，一個名叫路得。他們在那裡住了約有十年。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
这 两 个 儿 子 娶 了 摩 押 女 子 为 妻 ， 一 个 名 叫 俄 珥 巴 ， 一 个 名 叫 路 得 ， 在 那 里 住 了 约 有 十 年 。

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

they took: The Targum says, "they transgressed the decree of the word of the Lord, and took to them strange women."

wives: Deuteronomy 7:3, Deuteronomy 23:3, 1 Kings 11:1, 1 Kings 11:2

Ruth: Matthew 1:5

Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
God named the dry land "earth" and the water that was gathered together "seas." God saw that this was good.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced plants with grain for seeds and trees that made fruits with seeds in them. Each seed grew its own kind of plant. God saw that all this was good.

Genesis 1:18
to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that all these things were good.

Genesis 1:25
So God made the wild animals, the tame animals, and all the small crawling animals to produce more of their own kind. God saw that this was good.

Genesis 1:31
God looked at everything he had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.

Ecclesiastes 2:13
I saw that being wise is certainly better than being foolish, just as light is better than darkness.

Ecclesiastes 11:7
Sunshine is sweet; it is good to see the light of day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they took them wives of the women of Moab,.... Not before they were proselyted to the Jewish religion, as Aben Ezra thinks, and which seems plainly to be the case of Ruth; at least she was so afterwards, if not before; and also of Orpah, as the same writer concludes from Ruth 1:15 though others are of a different opinion, and some excuse their marriage, and others condemn it as unlawful, among whom is the Targumist, who paraphrases the words,

"and they transgressed the decree of the Word of the Lord, and took to them strange wives of the daughters of Moab;''

however it was so permitted by the Lord, and ordered in Providence, that from one of them the Messiah might spring:

and the name of the one was Orpah; she was married to Chilion; and Alshech gathers from hence that the youngest was married first before his brother:

and the name of the other Ruth the Targum adds,

"the daughter of Eglon, king of Moab;''

and that she was his daughter, or the daughter of his son, is a notion commonly received with the Jews y though without any just foundation; she was married to Mahlon, Ruth 4:10, one Philo z asserts these two women to be own sisters, for what reason does not appear; and a Jewish writer a says they were both daughters of Eglon, king of Moab: and they dwelt there about ten years; that is, Mahlon and Chilion, who married these women; which is to be reckoned either from the time they came into the land, or from the time of their marriage; the latter seems to be the case from the connection of the words.

y T. Bab. Nazir, fol. 23. 2. Sotah, fol. 47. 1. Sanhedrin, fol. 105. 2. Horayot, fol. 10. 2. Zohar in Deut. fol. 109. 2. z Apud Drusium in loc. a Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 8. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Marriages of Israelites with women of Ammon or Moab are nowhere in the Law expressly forbidden, as were marriages with the women of Canaan Deuteronomy 7:1-3. In the days of Nehemiah the special law Deuteronomy 23:3-6 was interpreted as forbidding them, and as excluding the children of such marriages from the congregation of Israel Nehemiah 13:1-3. Probably the marriages of Mahlon and Chilion would be justified by necessity, living as they were in a foreign land. Ruth was the wife of the older brother, Mahlon Ruth 4:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 1:4. And they took them wives — The Targum very properly observes, that they transgressed the decree of the word of the Lord, and took to themselves strange women.