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 then will my wrath wax hot and I will kill you with sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore let their children die of hunger, and let them be oppressed with the sword. Let their wives be robbed of their children, and become widows: let their husbands be slain, let their young men be killed with the sword in the field.
Lamentations 5:3
We are become careful and fatherless, and our mothers are as the widows.