Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.
Avenge
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Bible References
A widow
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursing he turning away the judgment of the stranger, the orphan and the widow: and all the people said, Amen.
2 Samuel 14:5
And the king will say to her, What to thee? And she will say, Truly I a widow woman, and my husband will die.
Job 22:9
Thou didst send away widows empty, and the arms of the orphans will be broken.
Job 29:13
The praise of him perishing will come upon me, and I shall cause the heart of the widow to rejoice.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do good; seek out judgment, lead right the oppressor, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.
Jeremiah 5:28
They became fat, they shone: they passed over words of evil: they judged not judgment, the judgment of the orphan, and they will give success; and the judgment of the needy they judged not.
Avenge
Luke 18:7
And shall not God do the avenging of his chosen, crying to him day and night, being slow to anger toward them?
Romans 13:3
For rulers are not the terror of good works, but of evil. And wilt thou not fear the power do good, and thou shalt have approbation of it:
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2 Kings 8:3
And it will be from the end of seven years, and the woman will turn back from the land of the rovers, and come to cry to the king for her house and for her field.