Thematic Bible: Widow's
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Mite (a lepta) » Widow's
And he also saw a certain poor widow there casting in two mites.
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Widow's » Should be » Allowed to share in our blessings
And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, that LORD thy God may bless thee in al
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And thou shall rejoice before LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in th
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When thou reap thy harvest in thy field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shall not go again to fetch it. It shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that LORD thy God may bless thee in all th When thou beat thine olive tree, thou shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. When thou gather of thy vineyard, thou shall not glean it behind thee. It shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Widow's » Were clothed in mourning after the decease of husbands
And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and do not anoint thyself with oil, but be as a woman who has a lon
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And she put the garments of her widowhood off from her, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was not give
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And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
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And the king said to her, What troubles thee? And she answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
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Widow's » Increase of, threatened as a punishment
Their widows have increased to me above the sand of the seas. I have brought upon them, against the mother of the young men, a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.
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and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your sons fatherless.
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Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword, and let their wives become childless, and widows, and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battl
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Widow's » Character of true
being testified in good works: if she has reared children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the sanctified, if she has relieved those who are afflicted, if she has followed every good work.
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and this woman was a widow to eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day.
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But the real widow, and made alone, has hoped in God, and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » To have a share of the triennial tithe
At the end of every three years thou shall bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within thy gates.
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When thou have made an end of tithing all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then thou shall give it to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat And thou shall say before LORD thy God, I have put away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandment which
Widow's » Laws respecting » To share in public rejoicings
And thou shall rejoice before LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in th
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And thou shall rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Not to be oppressed
Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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Widow's » Instances of great liberality in
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee. So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. read more.
And she said, As LORD thy God lives, I do not have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse. And, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it, And Elijah said to her, Fear not, go and do as thou have said. But make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son. For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall not be used up, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that LORD sends rain upon the earth. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah. And she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.
And she said, As LORD thy God lives, I do not have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse. And, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it, And Elijah said to her, Fear not, go and do as thou have said. But make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son. For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall not be used up, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that LORD sends rain upon the earth. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah. And she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.
And one poor widow having come, she cast in two mites, which are a quadrans. And having summoned his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow cast in more than all those who are casting into the treasury.
Widow's » Should be » Relieved by their friends
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be devoted to their own house, and to give back recompense to their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
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If any believing man or believing woman has widows, let them relieve them, and let not the congregation be burdened, so that it may relieve the real widows.
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Widow's » God » Judges for
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner in giving him food and raiment.
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A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Widow's » Were under the special protection of God
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner in giving him food and raiment.
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A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Widow's » Should not be » Oppressed
if ye do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own hurt,
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And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor man. And let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.
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Widow's » The wicked » Make a prey of
to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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But woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye devour widows' houses, and praying long in pretence. Because of this ye will receive greater condemnation.
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Widow's » Often devoted themselves entirely to God's service
being testified in good works: if she has reared children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the sanctified, if she has relieved those who are afflicted, if she has followed every good work.
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and this woman was a widow to eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day.
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Widow's » Should be » Relieved by the church
Now in those days, the disciples being multiplied, there developed a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily assistance.
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Let no widow be enrolled under sixty years old, having become the wife of one man,
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Widow's » Specially taken care of by the primitive church
Now in those days, the disciples being multiplied, there developed a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily assistance.
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Let no widow be enrolled under sixty years old, having become the wife of one man,
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Widow's » Not to be deplored by, considered a great calamity
Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation.
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Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
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Widow's » Were frequently oppressed and persecuted
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » When left childless, to be married by their husband's nearest of kin
If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a And it shall be, that the first-born who she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.
Widow's » Laws respecting » Raiment of, not to be taken in pledge by creditors
Thou shall not distort the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge,
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Widow's » Laws respecting » To be allowed to glean in fields and vineyards
When thou reap thy harvest in thy field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shall not go again to fetch it. It shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that LORD thy God may bless thee in all th
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Widow's » Should not be » Deprived of raiment in pledge
Thou shall not distort the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge,
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Widow's » When young, exposed to may temptations
But refuse younger widows, for when they are sexually aroused, they desire of the Christ to marry, which has condemnation because they have disregarded the original pledge. And also at the same time they learn to be idle, roving the houses, and not only idle, but also babbling and meddlesome, speaking things that they ought not. read more.
I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.
I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.
Widow's » Curse for perverting judgment of
Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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Widow's » Blessings on those who relieve
And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, that LORD thy God may bless thee in al
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Widow's » Illustrative of » Zion in captivity
Widow's » A type of zion in affliction
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » When daughters of priests and childless, to partake of the holy things
But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread, but there shall no stranger eat of it.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Not to intermarry with priests
A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these he shall not take, but he shall take to wife a virgin of his own people.
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Widow's » Intermarrying with, of kings considered treason
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife. And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why do thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my elder brother, even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Then king Solomon swore by LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life. read more.
Now therefore as LORD lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
Now therefore as LORD lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
Widow's » God » Establishes the border of
LORD will root up the house of the proud, but he will establish the border of the widow.
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Widow's » Exhorted to trust in God
Leave thy fatherless sons; I will preserve them alive. And let thy widows trust in me.
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Widow's » Illustrative of » A desolate condition
Now therefore hear this, thou who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me. I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of sons. But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day: the loss of sons, and widowhood. In their full measure they shall come upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Thus says LORD: Execute ye justice and righteousness. And deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong. Do no violence to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in t
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Widow's » Should be » Honored, if widows indeed
Support widows, the real widows.
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Widow's » Though poor, may be liberal
And one poor widow having come, she cast in two mites, which are a quadrans. And having summoned his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow cast in more than all those who are casting into the treasury.
Widow's » Woe to those who oppress
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness, to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Widow's » Laws respecting » Bound to perform their vows
But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, [even] everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.
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Widow's » Should not be » Afflicted
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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Widow's » The wicked » Vex
In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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Widow's » God » Surely hears the cry of
If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry,
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Widow's » The wicked » Reject the cause of
Thy rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
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Widow's » Should be » Pleaded for
Learn to do good. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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Widow's » God » Will witness against oppressors of
And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f
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Widow's » God » Relieves
LORD preserves the sojourners. He upholds the fatherless and widow. But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
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Widow's » Reproach connected with
Fear not, for thou shall not be ashamed. Neither be thou confounded, for thou shall not be put to shame. For thou shall forget the shame of thy youth. And the reproach of thy widowhood thou shall remember no more.
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Widow's » The wicked » Slay
They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.
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Widow's » Should be » Visited in affliction
Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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Widow's » Were released from all obligation to former husbands
So then, of the living husband, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes to another man, but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress having become to another man.
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Widow's » Allowed to marry again
So then, of the living husband, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes to another man, but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress having become to another man.
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Widow's » The wicked » Do no good to
He devours the barren who do not bear, and does no good to the widow.
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Widow's » Saints » Disappoint not
If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
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Widow's » Saints » Cause joy to
The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
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Widow's » Saints » Relieve
And after rising, Peter went with them, whom, after coming, they brought into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood by him weeping, and exhibiting the coats and garments, as many things as Dorcas made being with them.
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Widow's » The wicked » Take pledges from
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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Widow's » The wicked » Send, away empty
Thou have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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- Foreigners
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- Immigrants
- Loving Foreigners
- Not Helping Widows
- Oppressing Foreigners
- Oppression, God's Attitude To
- Oppression, Nature Of
- Orphans
- People Helping Orphans
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- Social Justice
- Strangers
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- Widows, Should Be
- Widows, Should Not Be
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