WIDOW

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• Exodus 22:22

  “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

• Exodus 22:23

  If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

• Exodus 22:24

  and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

• Leviticus 21:14

  A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.

• Leviticus 22:13

  But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.

• Numbers 30:9

  “But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

• Deuteronomy 10:18

  He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

• Deuteronomy 14:28

  At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 14:29

  The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

• Deuteronomy 16:11

  You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

• Deuteronomy 16:12

  You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.

• Deuteronomy 16:13

  You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.

• Deuteronomy 16:14

  You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 24:17

  You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

• Deuteronomy 24:19

  When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

• Deuteronomy 24:20

  When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

• Deuteronomy 24:21

  When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

• Deuteronomy 25:5

  If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

• Deuteronomy 25:6

  It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 25:7

  If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

• Deuteronomy 25:8

  Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her”;

• Deuteronomy 25:9

  then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”

• Deuteronomy 25:10

  His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his shoe removed.”

• Deuteronomy 27:19

  ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Ruth 1:3

  Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.

• 2 Kings 4:1

  Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

• 2 Kings 4:2

  Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”

• 2 Kings 4:3

  Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from of all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.

• 2 Kings 4:4

  Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”

• 2 Kings 4:5

  So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.

• 2 Kings 4:6

  When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

• 2 Kings 4:7

  Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”

• Job 22:5

  Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

• Job 22:9

  You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

• Job 24:3

  They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

• Job 24:21

  He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

• Job 29:13

  the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

• Job 31:16

  “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

• Job 31:22

  then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

• Psalms 68:5

  A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

• Psalms 94:6

  They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

• Psalms 146:9

  Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

• Proverbs 15:25

  Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

• Isaiah 1:17

  Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

• Isaiah 1:23

  Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

• Isaiah 10:1

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

• Isaiah 10:2

  to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

• Jeremiah 7:6

  if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

• Jeremiah 7:7

  then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.

• Jeremiah 22:3

  Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

• Jeremiah 49:11

  Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

• Ezekiel 22:7

  In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

• Zechariah 7:10

  Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

• Malachi 3:5

  I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Matthew 23:14

  “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

• Mark 12:40

  those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

• Mark 12:41

  Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.

• Mark 12:42

  A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.

• Mark 12:43

  He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,

• Mark 12:44

  for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”

• Luke 2:36

  There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

• Luke 2:37

  and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

• Luke 7:11

  Soon afterwards, he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him.

• Luke 7:12

  Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.

• Luke 7:13

  When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, “Don’t cry.”

• Luke 7:14

  He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I tell you, arise!”

• Luke 7:15

  He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

• Luke 20:47

  who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

• Luke 21:2

  He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.

• Romans 7:3

  So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

• 1 Corinthians 7:8

  But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

• 1 Corinthians 7:9

  But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

• 1 Corinthians 7:39

  A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

• 1 Timothy 5:3

  Honor widows who are widows indeed.

• 1 Timothy 5:4

  But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

• 1 Timothy 5:5

  Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

• 1 Timothy 5:6

  But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

• 1 Timothy 5:9

  Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

• 1 Timothy 5:10

  being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

• 1 Timothy 5:11

  But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

• 1 Timothy 5:12

  having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

• 1 Timothy 5:16

  If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.