Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

A widow

General references

Bible References

A widow

1 Timothy 5:3
Honor and help those widows who are truly widowed [alone, and without support].

Under

1 Timothy 5:11
But refuse [to enroll the] younger widows, for when they feel their natural desires in disregard of Christ, they wish to marry again,
Luke 2:36
There was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, and had lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage,

Having

1 Timothy 3:2
Now an overseer must be blameless and beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
1 Corinthians 7:10
But to the married [believers] I give instructions—not I, but the Lord—that the wife is not to separate from her husband,

General references

Leviticus 14:42
Then they shall take new stones and replace the [contaminated] stones, and he shall take plaster and replaster the house.