Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
General references
Bible References
General references
Exodus 22:24
And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.
Jeremiah 18:21
For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.
Lamentations 5:3
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.