who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,
The first words give all the date we have of this story. It was in the days when the judges ruled (Rut 1:1), not in those disorderly times when there was no king in Israel; but under which of the judges these things happened we are not told, and the conjectures of the learned are very uncertain.
Commenting on Ruth 1:1-5
And they took them wives of the women of Moab,.... Not before they were proselyted to the Jewish religion, as Aben Ezra thinks, and which seems plainly to be the case of Ruth; at least she was so afterwards, if not before; and also of Orpah, as the same writer concludes from Rut 1:15 though others are of a different opinion, and some excuse their...
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one [was] Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. (c) By this wonderful providence of God Ruth became one of God's household, of whom Christ came.