(pining, sickly), the son of Naomi and husband of Ruth. (Ruth 1:2-5; 4:9) (B.C. 1250.)

How under Eli's Government of the Israelites Booz Married Ruth ...
... being not able to support his family under so sore a distress, took with him Naomi
his wife, and the children that were born to him by her, Chillon and Mahlon ...
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The Martyr-Bishop, 1548-1560.
... He had no books, no papers, no ink, no news of the world without; and there for
three years he sat in the dark, as lonely as the famous prisoner of Chillon. ...
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The Acceptance of the Christian Conception of Life Will Emancipate ...
... I know that in Switzerland in the year 1890 there were men in prison in the castle
of Chillon for declining to serve in the army, whose resolution was not ...
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