Verse 3

Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."
• Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
• Heb 12:6 : 6 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."
• Heb 12:10-11 : 10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.