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Elimelech

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: E

By: James P. Boyd

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Duration: 8sec

Ruth 1:1‑3

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(my God is king). Husband of Naomi (Ruth 1:1-3¹Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. 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 Bethlehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there. ³And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. (Ruth 1:1‑3)).

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