Marriages of Israelites with women of Ammon or Moab are nowhere in the Law expressly forbidden, as were marriages with the women of Canaan ([Refere…

They took them wives. — This seems to have happened after the father’s death. The fault of settling on heathen soil, begu…

Which was about ten years too long. Probably they did not intend to remain so long when they went there; they only meant to be in Moab for a little…

And they took them wives of the women of Moab
Not before they were proselyted to the Jewish religion, as Aben Ezra t…

Elimelech's care to provide for his family should not be blamed; but his removal into the country of Moab could not be justified. And that removal …