Category:Elimelech

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

Elimelech - 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. In consequence of a great dearth he, with his wife Naomi and his two sons, went to dwell in the land of Moab. There he and his sons died (Ruth 1:2, Ruth 1:3; Ruth 2:1, Ruth 2:3; Ruth 4:3, Ruth 4:9). Naomi afterwards returned to Palestine with her daughter Ruth.