Ruth 1:5
And Mahlon and Chilion came to their end; and the woman was without her two sons and her husband.
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- Deut 32:39 : 39 See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.
- Ps 89:30-32 : 30 If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions; 31 If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept; 32 Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.
- Isa 49:21 : 21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?
- Jer 2:19 : 19 The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
- Matt 22:25-27 : 25 Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother; 26 In the same way the second and the third, up to the seventh. 27 And last of all the woman came to her end.
- Luke 7:12 : 12 Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.
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- Ruth 1:1-44 verses88%
1Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.
2And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and were there for some time.
3And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, came to his end; and only her two sons were with her.
4And they took two women of Moab as their wives: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth; and they went on living there for about ten years.
- Ruth 1:6-2217 verses79%
6So she and her daughters-in-law got ready to go back from the country of Moab, for news had come to her in the country of Moab that the Lord, in mercy for his people, had given them food.
7And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on their way to go back to the land of Judah.
8And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go back to your mothers' houses: may the Lord be good to you as you have been good to the dead and to me:
9May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly.
10And they said to her, No, but we will go back with you to your people.
11But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands?
12Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons,
13Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.
14Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.
15And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.
16But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God.
17Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.
18And when she saw that Ruth was strong in her purpose to go with her she said no more.
19So the two of them went on till they came to Beth-lehem. And when they came to Beth-lehem all the town was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
20And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.
21I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?
22So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her; and they came to Beth-lehem in the first days of the grain-cutting.
- Ruth 2:18-236 verses76%
18And she took it up and went into the town; and she let her mother-in-law see what she had got, and after taking enough for herself she gave her the rest.
19And her mother-in-law said to her, Where did you take up the grain today, and where were you working? May a blessing be on him who gave such attention to you. And she gave her mother-in-law an account of where she had been working, and said, The name of the man with whom I was working today is Boaz.
20And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May the blessing of the Lord, who has at all times been kind to the living and to the dead, be on him. And Naomi said to her, The man is of our family, one of our near relations.
21And Ruth the Moabitess said, Truly, he said to me, Keep near my young men till all my grain is cut.
22And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is better, my daughter, for you to go out with his servant-girls, so that no danger may come to you in another field.
23So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.
- Ruth 4:10-112 verses75%
10And, further, I have taken Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to keep the name of the dead man living in his heritage, so that his name may not be cut off from among his countrymen, and from the memory of his town: you are witnesses this day.
11And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;
- Ruth 2:1-33 verses74%
1And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.
2And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.
3And she went, and came and took up the heads of grain in the field after the cutters; and by chance she went into that part of the field which was the property of Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
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5Then Boaz said, On the day when you take this field, you will have to take with it Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, so that you may keep the name of the dead living in his heritage.
- Ruth 4:13-153 verses72%
13So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord made her with child and she gave birth to a son.
14And the women said to Naomi, A blessing on the Lord, who has not let you be this day without a near relation, and may his name be great in Israel.
15He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.
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16And when she came back her mother-in-law said to her, How did it go with you, my daughter? And she gave her an account of all the man had done to her.
- Ruth 2:6-83 verses71%
6And the servant who was in authority over the cutters said, It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab;
7And she said to me, Let me come into the grain-field and take up the grain after the cutters. So she came, and has been here from morning till now, without resting even for a minute.
8Then said Boaz to Ruth, Give ear to me, my daughter: do not go to take up the grain in another field, or go away from here, but keep here by my young women:
- Luke 20:30-323 verses71%
30And the second;
31And the third took her; and in the same way, all the seven, without having any children, came to their end.
32And last of all, the woman came to her end.
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21And the second took her, and at his death there were no offspring; and the third the same:
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11And Boaz answering said to her, I have had news of everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband; how you went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you.
- 2 Sam 14:5-62 verses70%
5And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
6And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.
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5If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.
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1And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, am I not to get you a resting-place where you may be in comfort?
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27And last of all the woman came to her end.