5And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
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Commentary
Matthew Henry
(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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