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RUTH CHAPTER 1
A famine in Canaan. Elimelech removes to Moab; with Naomi his wife, and his two sons, who marry Orpah and Ruth there; and die, Rth_1:1-5. Naomi returns to Judah; her daughters-in-law accompany her on her way, Rth_1:6-13. Orpah returns home to her people and gods; Ruth remains, being converted, Rth_1:14-18. They come to Beth-lehem, Rth_1:19-22.
In the days when the judges ruled; which is noted as the cause of the following famine, because in much of that time they were guilty of great defection from God. But under which of the judges this happened, Scripture being silent, it seems presumptuous to determine; nor is it necessary to know. What is said about this matter from the genealogy, mentioned Rth_1:18, &c., it will be most proper to consider it there.
In the land, or, in that land, to wit, of Canaan.
The country of Moab; a fruitful land beyond Jordan, eastward.