THEOSISRuth 1:5Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was left alone, having lost both her sons and her husband.
וַיָּמ֥וּתוּ גַם־שְׁנֵיהֶ֖ם מַחְל֣וֹן וְכִלְי֑וֹן וַתִּשָּׁאֵר֙ הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה מִשְּׁנֵ֥י יְלָדֶ֖יהָ וּמֵאִישָֽׁהּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Isa 49:21And thou shalt say in thy heart: Who hath begotten these? I was barren and brought not forth, led away, and captive: and who hath brought up these? I was destitute and alone: and these, where were they?
- Luke 7:12And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her.
- Jer 2:19Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.
- Deut 32:39See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
- Ps 89 (88):30
- Ps 89 (88):32
- Matt 22:25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having married a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his brother.
- Matt 22:27And last of all the woman died also.