Were the two fighters actually related? Let’s find out. To solve this riddle, we have to carefully consider a brief history of the family. Naomi from the land of Judea was married to Elimeleck and together they had two sons Mahlon and Chilion; while in Judea a famine struck the land and they moved to Moab, a land which they considered better of. At Moab Elimeleck died and Naomi became a window remaining with only his two sons,
While in Moab Mahlion and Chilion married. The wife of one was Ruth and the wife of the other was orphah, as time went on naomi boys died and she was left with his two daughters, Naomi while still in Moab heard the good news that the Lord and visited judea had provided them with food.
With those news Naomi planned to go back to her home land, she urged her daughters to remain at Moab and gave them many reasons as to why they should remain; while orphah obeyed and chose to go back, Ruth on the other hand declained and followed her with unmatched tenacity “your God shall be my God, your people my people and where you shall die there also I shall die”
After orphah returned according to Babylonian Talmud (sotah 42b) she gave birth to five sons among them Goliath while on the other hand Ruth was married to Boaz who gave birth to Obed who later became the father of Jesse and Jesse now turned to be the father of David.
