Ruth 1:5
New International Version
both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.

New Living Translation
both Mahlon and Kilion died. This left Naomi alone, without her two sons or her husband.

English Standard Version
and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.

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

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

New King James Version
Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died; so the woman survived her two sons and her husband.

New American Standard Bible
Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.

NASB 1995
Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was bereft of her two children and her husband.

NASB 1977
Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died; and the woman was bereft of her two children and her husband.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was left without her two children and her husband.

Amplified Bible
and then both Mahlon and Chilion also died, so the woman [Naomi] was left without her two sons and her husband.

Christian Standard Bible
both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was left without her two children and without her husband.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two children and without her husband.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And both her sons, Malyun and Kelyoon, died, and the woman was bereft of her husband and of both her sons

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And both Maalon and Chelaion died also; and the woman was left of her husband and her two sons.

Contemporary English Version
Mahlon and Chilion also died. Now Naomi had no husband or sons.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was left alone, having lost both her sons and her husband.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then both Mahlon and Chilion died as well. So Naomi was left alone, without her two sons or her husband.

Good News Translation
Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left all alone, without husband or sons.

International Standard Version
both Mahlon and Chilion died, leaving Naomi alone with neither her husband nor her two sons.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Mahlon and Chilion died both of them; and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.

Literal Standard Version
And they die also, both of them—Mahlon and Chilion—and the woman is left of her two children and of her husband.

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

New American Bible
both Mahlon and Chilion died also, and the woman was left with neither her two boys nor her husband.

NET Bible
Then Naomi's two sons, Mahlon and Kilion, also died. So the woman was left all alone--bereaved of her two children as well as her husband!

New Revised Standard Version
both Mahlon and Chilion also died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.

New Heart English Bible
Mahlon and Kilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left by her two sons and her husband.

World English Bible
Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.

Young's Literal Translation
And they die also, both of them -- Mahlon and Chilion -- and the woman is left of her two children and of her husband.

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Context
Naomi Becomes a Widow
4who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years, 5both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.

Cross References
Ruth 1:2
The man's name was Elimelech, his wife's name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.

Ruth 1:4
who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,

Ruth 1:6
When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.


Treasury of Scripture

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

A.

Deuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Psalm 89:30-32
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; …

Jeremiah 2:19
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

and the woman

Isaiah 49:21
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

Matthew 22:25-27
Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: …

Luke 7:12
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.

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Ruth 1
1. Elimelech, driven by famine into Moab, dies there
4. Mahlon and Chilion, having married wives of Moab, die also
6. Naomi, returning homeward
8. dissuades her two daughters-in-law from going with her
14. Orpah leaves her, but Ruth with great constancy accompanies her
19. The two come to Bethlehem, where they are gladly received














(5) And they died.--Clearly as quite young men. It is not for us to say how far those are right who see in the death of Elimelech and his sons God's punishment for the disregard of His law. Thus Naomi is left alone, as one on whom comes suddenly the loss of children and widowhood.

Verse 5. - And, to make a long story short, Machlon and Chillon died also both of them. "Like green apples," says Fuller, "cudgelled off the tree." But why "cudgelled?" There is no evidence in the text of Divine displeasure, and the Christian expositor, when going beyond the text in quest of principles, should not forget the tower of Siloam, and the victims of Pilate s bloodthirstiness (see Luke 13:1-5). And the woman was left of her two children and of her husband. That is, "of her two children as well as of her husband." She became as it were their relict too. She remained behind after they had gone on before. If all sentiment were to be taken out of the expression, it might then be simply said, in very commonplace prose, she survived them. Poor woman! "Of the two sexes," says Fuller, "the woman is the weaker; of women, old women are most feeble; of old women, widows most woeful; of widows, those that are poor, their plight most pitiful; of poor widows, those who want children, their case most doleful; of widows that want children, those that once had them, and after lost them, their estate most desolate; of widows that have had children, those that are strangers in a foreign country, their condition most comfortless. Yet all these met together in Naomi, as in the center of sorrow, to make the measure of her misery pressed down, shaken together, running over. I conclude, therefore, many men have had affliction - none like Job; many women have had tribulation - none like Naomi."

CHAPTER 1:6-14.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
both
שְׁנֵיהֶ֖ם (šə·nê·hem)
Number - mdc | third person masculine plural
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

Mahlon
מַחְל֣וֹן (maḥ·lō·wn)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4248: Mahlon -- the first husband of Ruth

and Chilion
וְכִלְי֑וֹן (wə·ḵil·yō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3630: Chilion -- a son of Naomi

also
גַם־ (ḡam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

died,
וַיָּמ֥וּתוּ (way·yā·mū·ṯū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

and Naomi
הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה (hā·’iš·šāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

was left
וַתִּשָּׁאֵר֙ (wat·tiš·šā·’êr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7604: To swell up, be, redundant

without her two
מִשְּׁנֵ֥י (miš·šə·nê)
Preposition-m | Number - mdc
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

sons
יְלָדֶ֖יהָ (yə·lā·ḏe·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3206: Something born, a lad, offspring

and without her husband.
וּמֵאִישָֽׁהּ׃ (ū·mê·’î·šāh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person


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