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Subject: [Q-R] Re: QUAKER-ROOTS-D Digest V99 #675/MAHLON
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 10:45:09 EST
A little more on MAHLON
MAHLON
(Mah'lon) [possibly from a root meaning “grow weak; fall sick”].
Son of Elimelech and Naomi. During a famine in the days of the Judges, he
moved with his parents from Bethlehem in Judah to Moab. There Mahlon married
the Moabitess Ruth, but he died childless. (Ru 1:1-5; 4:10) Ruth returned to
Judah with her mother-in-law and, complying with the law of levirate
marriage, married Boaz.
(Ru 4:9, 10; De 25:5, 6) The resulting family line produced David and led to
Jesus Christ.—Ru 4:22; Mt 1:5, 6, 16.
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