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Rth 1:5 — And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Entire Verse.		A. M. 2696. B.C. 1308.
Entire Verse.		An. Ex. Is. 183.
Mahlon		Deu 32:39; Psa 89:30-32; Jer 2:19
died		"The Targum adds, ""And because they transgressed the decree of the word of the LORD, and joined affinity with strange people, therefore their days were cut off."""
and the woman		Isa 49:21; Mat 22:25-27; Luk 7:12

Correlating Passages

Mahlon

	Deu 32:39	See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my hand.
	Psa 89:30	If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
	Psa 89:31	If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
	Psa 89:32	Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
	Jer 2:19	Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

and the woman

	Isa 49:21	Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where [had] they [been]?
	Mat 22:25	Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
	Mat 22:26	Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
	Mat 22:27	And last of all the woman died also.
	Luk 7:12	Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.

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Scott, Thomas. "Ruth 1:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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