Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Bible References

General references

Exodus 22:24
and My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore, give their children over to famine
And deliver them up to the power of the sword;
And let their wives become childless and widowed.
Let their men also be smitten to death,
Their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Lamentations 5:3
We have become orphans without a father,
Our mothers are like widows.