Mahlon and Chilion

He was descended from one of the princes of Judah, and was a man of means and consequence.

Elimelech's wife was named Naomi, meaning pleasant, and they had two sons, whose names were Malin and Chilion.

This old and noble family lived in this fertile region, amid pleasant surroundings and with happy prospects, until one of the frequent famines that were brought on by want of rain visited their district.

leaving the parched and sterile fields around Bethlehem, Elimelech and his family and his flocks left their home and settled in the rich and well-watered lands of the Moabites beyond the Jordan.

But much trouble was in store for this family, notwithstanding its wealth had enabled them to leave their own famine-stricken lands.

First Alamelech died, and the family was without a head.

Then Malin married a beautiful woman of the country in which he was then living, named Ruth, and his brother Chilion married another named Orpah.

such marriages were against the law of moses because the moabites worshipped idols but as the nation was descended from lot the nephew of abraham the marriages were not so bad as they would have been with women belonging to other of the different tribes of canaan After a while both of the sons of Naomi died, and she was left a childless widow in a strange land.

So some say there was a gear that happened already, which again, it's hard to understand how that worked.

You could maybe argue that Machon and Kilion, Moiov is not far from Eretz Yisrael, it's right across the border.

They might have sent some Rabbanim to please come and make this gear.

Maybe they sent Rus and Arpat to Eretz Yisrael to make the gear, which doesn't say this anywhere, but that's a big shaykh.

We were born too late.

The times of the Hashminoim...

But this is an opinion, and first of all this is , this is an opinion that explains that, and according to this opinion, Mahon and Kilion at that time, they were aware of a different halakhah.

The Torah says, and this is one of the big challenges to David the Melech, that any gayer from the nation of Mayav cannot marry a Jewish person.

Ruth.

After they had lived there for about 10 years, both Mahlon and Kilion also died.

And Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.

Today, I want to speak from the subject, title fight.

I- it's within your right, yet there is another aspect of this redemption, though.

Whoever buys the home will also redeem her daughter-in-law, Ruth, the widow of Mahlon.

She traveled with her to Bethlehem.

As the words left his lips, Boaz felt the weight of his own longing.

You are witnesses to this day that I plan to buy from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, and all that belonged to Chilion, and to Mah-

Mah-I will redeem the land that has gone untended and cultivate it.

And as for Ruth, the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I intend to make her my wife.

May the name of the dead never be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place.

There was no bread.

So they journey to Moab, a place of their enemies with their two sons, Malon, Chilion.

Their two sons marry Moabite women, Ruth and Orpah.

Elimelech dies.

The name of this man, verse 2, was Elimelech.

Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and his two sons, Malon and Chilion, are finding themselves in this awful cycle of sinful disobedience.

They find themselves in a place where there's no food to eat.

There's physical famine.

And it says they lived there about 10 years.

And then verse 5. takes us to the end of this setup scene and the darkness falls even more.

Both Malon and Chilion died so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.

And the big question then becomes, how are we going to get from judges to kings? We need an heir.

That night, as they shared a meal by the fire, Naomi spoke with a lightness Ruth hadn't heard in months.

They reminisced about Moab, Mahlon, Chilion, and Orpha.

Their laughter filled the small house.

For the first time since they had buried their husbands, they allowed themselves to dream of a better future.

For the closest relative said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself," and he removed the sandal.

Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, "You are witnesses today that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelek, and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon." Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife, in order to raise up the name of the deceased and his, on his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his brothers or from the court of his birthplace.

You are witnesses today.

What did Ruth experience? Redemption.