Ruth 1:3-5

Now Elimelek, Naomi's husband died, and she was left with her two sons. They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.

 

They married Moabite women

1 Kings 11:1-2  King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter--Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.  

2 Chronicles 24:26  Those who conspired against him (Joash king of Israel) were Zabad, son of Shimeath an Ammonite woman, and Jehozabad, son of Shimrith a Moabite woman.  

Ezra 9:1-2  After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, "The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites. They have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, and have mingled the holy race with the peoples around them. And the leaders and officials have led the way in this unfaithfulness." 

Nehemiah 13:23  Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.

 

one named Orpah and the other Ruth 

Ruth 1:14  At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.  

Ruth 4:13  So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.

Matthew 1:5-6  ... Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of King David.

both Mahlon and Kilion also died 

Ruth 1:8  Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you to your mother's home. May the LORD show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me."

Ruth 2:11  Boaz replied, "I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband--how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before."

(parentheses are mine)

 

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