Talmud Bavli
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Commentary for Bava Batra 28:10

מכדי ישעיה קדים מירמיה ויחזקאל ליקדמיה לישעיה ברישא כיון דמלכים סופיה חורבנא וירמיה כוליה חורבנא ויחזקאל רישיה חורבנא וסיפיה נחמתא וישעיה כוליה נחמתא סמכינן חורבנא לחורבנא ונחמתא לנחמתא:

Now on the view that Job lived in the days of Moses, should not the book of Job come first? — We do not begin with a record of suffering. But Ruth also is a record of suffering?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As it says, 'And there was a famine in the land'. (Ruth I, 1.) ');"><sup>16</sup></span> — It is a suffering with a sequel [of happiness], as R. Johanan said: Why was her name called Ruth? — Because there issued from her David who replenished<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] which R. Johanan connects with [H] ');"><sup>17</sup></span>

Rashi on Bava Batra

Yeshaya preceded Yirmiyah and Yeḥezkel – for look, Yeshaya was in the days of Uziah, and Yirmiyah was in the days of Yoshiya and his sons prophecying in Jerusalem, and Yeḥezkel was in exile in the days of Ẓedekiyah.
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