3And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
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Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. …
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The first words give all the date we have of this story. It was in the days when the judges ruled (Ruth 1:1), not in those disorderly times when there was no king in Israel ; but under which of the judges these things happened we are not told, and the conjectures of the learned are very uncertain. It must have been towards the beginning of the judges’ time, for Boaz, who married Ruth, was born of…
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