Mahlon
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I
purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon
his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from
among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye [are]
witnesses this day....
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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. And they came into the country
of Moab, and continued there....
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And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman
was left of her two sons and her husband....
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Mahlon and Chilion were two brothers mentioned in the Book of
Ruth. They were the sons of Elimelech of the tribe of Joseph
and his wife Naomi. Together with their parents, they settled
in the land of Moab during the period of the Israelite Judges.
Mahlon married the Moabite woman Ruth while Chilion married
Orpah (according to the Midrash, Ruth...
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ma'-lon (machlon, "invalid"): Ruth's first husband (Ruth 12,5;
4:9,10). In the latter passage is further evidence of the
unwillingness to allow a family connection or inheritance to
drop (see MAHLAH; MAHLI). Note that David's descent and that
of his "Greater Son" come through Ruth and Boaz (Ruth 4:22)....
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-A son of Naomi, and the first husband of Ruth
Ru 1:2,5; 4:9,10...
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(sick) the first husband of Ruth; son of Eiimelech and Naomi.
Ru 1:2,5; 4:9,10 comp. 1Sam 17:12...
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sickly, the elder of Elimelech the Bethlehemite's two sons by
Naomi. He married Ruth and died childless (Ruth 1:2,
5; 4:9,
10), in the land of Moab....
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Ruth's first husband (Rth 1:2; Rth 1:5; Rth 4:9). An
Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, son of Elimelech and Naomi.
Mahlon died in Moab childless, a judgment says the Targum for
his marrying a Moabitess....
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