Naomi also pronounced noomi was the wife of elimelech in the book of ruth. While we criticize elimelechs risk seeking strategy to migrate their family to a pagan country 1. The book of ruth is one of those beautiful old testament pictures that is designed by god himself to illustrate the dramatic truths of the christian faith expounded in the new testament. Naomi decided to return to judah, and the sequel is told in the book of ruth.
The hidden symbolism you never saw in the book of ruth,andrew wilson, alastair robert study from the bible and be encouraged to grow your faith. Elimelech died, and the sons married two moabite women. During a famine, naomis husband elimelech took her and their two sons into the. Famine has hit bethlehem, which forces elimelech and his wife, naomi, to move east to. Elimelech n h s god his king, a man of the tribe of judah, of the family of the hezronites, and kinsman of boaz, who dwelt in bethlehem in the days of the judges. God instead chose to work through naomi and one of her moabite daughtersin law, ruth. The book of ruth 1 1 elimelech goeth with his wife and children into the land of moab. Elimelech and sons in the book of ruth elimelech and sons the patriarch of this family, and his two sons, mahlon and chilion, dont stick around long enough to make much of an impression on us. The rabbis see the death as caused by their leaving of canaan.
The patriarch of this family, and his two sons, mahlon and chilion, dont stick around long enough to make much of an impression on us. Audio and video pronunciation of elimelech brought to you by pronounce names, a website dedicated to helping people pronounce. Elimelech moves his family to moab in the days when the judges ruled in israel, a severe famine came upon the land. And 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 bethlehemjudah. Our story opens on a nice jewish family with a problem. In this they touch on a clear theme within the book. And they came into the country of moab, and continued there. Its more about the journey than you think part 1 pastor todd lane duration. As we explained in the introduction, the restoration of elimelech s seed by boaz through levirite marriage to ruth, constitutes the first redemptive cycle of the book. So much more than a love story,paula hendricks marsteller study from the bible and be encouraged to grow your faith.
While this was a decision made out of a desire for survival, moab was not the best place for elimelech to take his family. One married a woman named orpah, and the other a woman named ruth. The book of ruthbiblical allusions ap literature ms. God instead chose to work through naomi and one of her moabite daughtersinlaw, ruth. After only ten years in moab, elimelechs sons also. A famine was ravaging the land, and so elimelech moved his family away from israel to the country of moab so they would be fed ruth 1. It is a word picture in the old testament illustrative of the truth we find in the new testament, as i corinthians tells us. In consequence of a great dearth he, with his wife naomi and his two sons, went to dwell in the land of moab. Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that there. Ruth 1 gnt elimelech and his family move to moab bible gateway.