Elimelech means "God is King." However, he did not live into that name as he left the kingdom where God was to be king to a place where God wasn't. It is no wonder he found trouble.
Dr. Herbert Lockley pointed out that in chapter one, we see three standing in the road deciding where to go. Like the thieves at the cross, one goes to perdition, the other to paradise (Lockley, pg 68). I'm not sure it's a perfect picture of Jesus on the cross, but it reminds me that there are people in our lives and families who will not follow us into the promised land. It may be sad it was here, but Jesus said that families would be divided over him (Luke 12:53).
Lockley, Herbert, All the Books and Chapters of the Bible, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, 1966.
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