Thematic Bible: Widow's


Thematic Bible



And he also saw a certain poor widow casting there two small coins. Verse ConceptsTwo Other ThingsActual Widows

And the Levite came (because no portion and inheritance to him with thee) and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in thy gates, and ate and were satisfied; so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou shalt do. Verse ConceptsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSatisfactionSaints, Care For The PoorWidows, Should BeLoving ForeignersGod Will BlessNo Earthly InheritancePeople Helping Orphansfriendliness

And rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite that is in thy gates, and the stranger, and the orphan and the widow, which are in the midst of thee in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsWidowsWidows, Should BeRejoicingForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And RejoicingA Place For God's Name

When thou shalt reap thy harvest in thy field and didst forget a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not turn back to take it: to the stranger and to the orphan and to the widow shall it be; so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the doing of thy hands. When thou shalt beat thine olive thou shalt not go over the boughs after thee: to the stranger, to the orphan, and to the widow it shall be. And when thou shalt gather thy vineyard thou shalt not glean after thee; to the stranger, and to the orphan, and to the widow it shall be.

And Joab will send to Tekoah and take from thence a wise woman, and he will say to her, Thou shalt mourn, and put on now garments of mourning, and thou shalt not be anointed with oil, and be thou as a woman this many days mourning for the dead: Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilBereavement, Expression OfMourningOintmentUnhappinessAnointing OneselfPretendingDistinctive Clothing

And she will remove the garments of her widowhood from her, and she will be covered with a veil, and will veil herself and will sit in the entrance of the eyes, which is upon the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was great, and she was not given to him for a wife. Verse ConceptsClothing, Kinds OfGrowing UpClothing OneselfPeople Stripping OffSitting In The GatewaydisguisesUsing RoadsDistinctive ClothingGiving In Marriage

And she will arise and go, and will put away her veil from her, and will put on the garments of her widowhood Verse ConceptsPeople Stripping OffDistinctive Clothing

And the king will say to her, What to thee? And she will say, Truly I a widow woman, and my husband will die. Verse ConceptsActual Widows

Their widows were many to me above the sand of the seas: I brought to them against the mother a young man laying waste at noon: I caused to fall upon her suddenly wrath and terror. Verse ConceptsNoonSandWidowsThe Insecurity Of The WickedSudden DestructionThose Who DestroyMany In Israel

And my anger kindling, I killed you with the sword; and your wives were widows, and your sons orphans. Verse ConceptsEmotions, Shown By GodGod KillingGod KillsGod Will Be Angry

For this, give their sons to the famine, and pour them out upon the hands of the sword; and their wives shall be bereaved of offspring, and be widows; and their men shall be slain by death; their young men struck of the sword in battle. Verse ConceptsRevenge, Examples OfFamine KillingApproval To Kill

Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work. Verse ConceptsFoot washingFeet Washingethics, personalProperty, HousesReputationSaintsAfflicted, Duty To ThemHospitalityWives, DressTravellersLoving ForeignersClean FeetCare Of FeetDoing GoodRaising ChildrenHelping Those In NeedPetsGrandmothers


And she truly a widow, and forsaken, has hoped in God, and remains in supplications and prayers night and day. Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightHope, In GodImportunity, Towards GodLonelinessPrayerfulnessSinglenessPrayer, Offered WithIsolated PersonsThe Hope Of The Gospel

From the end of three years thou shalt bring all the tenth of thy produce in that year, and place thou it in thy gates: Verse ConceptsGiving, Of Possessionsethics, socialAlmsgivingAltruismCharityThree YearsEvery Three YearsTithes And Offeringfriendliness

When thou shalt finish to tithe all the tenth part of thy produce, in the third year the year of the tenth part, and thou gavest it to the Levite and to the stranger and to the orphan and to the widow, and they ate in thy gates and were satisfied. And thou saidst before Jehovah thy God, I took away the holy thing from the house, and also I gave it to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the orphan and to the widow, according to all thy commands which thou didst command me: I passed not by from thy command, and I did not forget

And rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite that is in thy gates, and the stranger, and the orphan and the widow, which are in the midst of thee in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsWidowsWidows, Should BeRejoicingForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And RejoicingA Place For God's Name

And rejoice in thy festival, thou and thy son and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, which are in thy gates: Verse ConceptsWidowsForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And Rejoicing



Arise, go to Zarephath which is to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I commanded a widow woman to nourish thee there. And he will rise and go to Zarephath, and will come to the entrance of the city, and behold there a widow woman gathering wood: and he will call to her, and say, Take now to me a little water in a vessel, and I will drink. And she will go to take, and he will call to her and say, Take now to me a bit of bread in thy hand. read more.
And she will say, Jehovah thy God lives, if there is to me a cake, but a handful of flour in a bucket, and a little oil in a cruse: and behold me gathering two woods, and I went to do it for me and for my son, and we shall eat and die. And Elijah will say to her, Thou shalt not fear; go and do according to thy word: but make to me from thence a little cake at first, and bring forth to me, and for thee and for thy son thou shalt make at last For thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, The bucket of flour shall not be spent, and the cruse of oil shall not fail until the day Jehovah shall give rain upon the face of the earth. And she will go and do according to the word of Elijah: and she will eat, she and he, and her house, days.

And one poor widow, having come, cast in two small coins, which is a farthing. And having called his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, That this poor widow has cast into the royal treasury, more than all they casting into the treasury:


If any man or woman faithful have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be loaded; that it may relieve the truly widows. Verse ConceptsBelieversMoney, Stewardship OfPoverty, Remedies ForLove Between RelativesRemoving BurdensPeople HelpingEach Local Church





Ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan and the widow, and innocent blood ye shall not pour out in this place, and after other gods ye shall not go, for evil to you; Verse ConceptsForeignersOppression, Nature OfWidows, Should Not BeSheddingOppressing ForeignersDifferent GodsDo Not MurderPenalties For Serving Other Gods


To turn away the judgment of the powerless, and to strip off judgment of the distressed of my people, for widows to be their plunder, and they will plunder orphans. Verse ConceptsFraudThe NeedyPlunderingHuntingOppression, Nature OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoor, Oppression OfExtortionNo JusticeNot Helping WidowsHelping The Pooroppression

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for pretence, praying at great lengths; for this shall ye receive more distingnished judgment. Verse ConceptsLegalismHypocrites, Description OfProfessingAge DiscriminationNot Helping WidowsToo Many WordsHypocritesHypocrisy

Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work. Verse ConceptsFoot washingFeet Washingethics, personalProperty, HousesReputationSaintsAfflicted, Duty To ThemHospitalityWives, DressTravellersLoving ForeignersClean FeetCare Of FeetDoing GoodRaising ChildrenHelping Those In NeedPetsGrandmothers






His surviving one shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep. Verse ConceptsWidowsActual WidowsNot Mourning

His priests fell by the sword, and his widows wept not Verse ConceptsKilling PriestsDeposed PriestsNot Mourning

They will lead away the ass of the orphans, and they will take for pledge, the widow's ox. Verse ConceptsOxenCreditAbhorGuaranteeOppression, Nature OfOrphansWidowsCreditorsOwning LivestockNot Helping Widows


If brethren shall dwell together and one of them died, and a son not to him, the wife of the dead shall not be without to a man a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and he took her to him for a wife, and he acted the husband's brother to her. And it is the first-born which she shall bear shall rise up upon the name of his brother the dead, and his name shall not be wiped from Israel


When thou shalt reap thy harvest in thy field and didst forget a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not turn back to take it: to the stranger and to the orphan and to the widow shall it be; so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the doing of thy hands. Verse ConceptsForeignersBinding cornBereaved, Care ForGrainOrphansSowing And ReapingWidowsAutumnAliensSuccess And Hard Work


And the younger widows reject: for when they conduct themselves arrogantly against Christ, they wish to marry: Having judgment, for they put away the first faith. And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming. read more.
I wish therefore the younger to marry, to bear children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to him opposing for reproach.


And the Levite came (because no portion and inheritance to him with thee) and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in thy gates, and ate and were satisfied; so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou shalt do. Verse ConceptsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSatisfactionSaints, Care For The PoorWidows, Should BeLoving ForeignersGod Will BlessNo Earthly InheritancePeople Helping Orphansfriendliness

How sat the city alone being many in people she was as a widow: being many among the nations, being a leader in the provinces, she became for tribute. Verse ConceptsLamentingQueensFilling PlacesWidowsEmpty CitiesGreat ThingsLuciferlonliness

We were orphans, no father; our mothers as widows. Verse ConceptsBeing ForsakenWidows

And when the daughter of the priest shall be a widow, or driven out, and no seed to her, and she turned back to her father's house as in her youth, she shall eat from her father's bread; and any stranger shall not eat of it. Verse ConceptsSinglenessDivorceFathers And Daughters

A widow, and the driven away, and profane, and an harlot, those he shall not take: but a virgin of his people shall he take a wife. Verse ConceptsProfanityDivorceMarriage Controlledvirginity

And she will say, Give Abishag the Shunamite to Adonijah thy brother for wife. And king Solomon will answer, and say to his mother, And wherefore didst thou ask Abishag the Shunamite for Adonijah? And ask for him the kingdom, for he my brother, the great above me; and for him Abiathar the priest., and Joab son of Zeruiah. And king Solomon will swear by Jehovah, saying, Thus will God do to me, and thus will he add, for Adonijah spoke this word against his soul. read more.
And now Jehovah lives who prepared me, and he will set me upon the throne of David my father, and who made for me a house as he spake, for this day Adonijah shall die.



And now hear this, thou living delicately, dwelling securely, saying in her heart, I, and none besides me; I shall not sit a widow, and I shall not know bereavement And these two shall come to thee suddenly, in one day, bereavement and widowhood: as finished they came upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and in the great numbers of thy enchantments.

Thus said Jehovah, Do ye judgment and justice, and deliver him taken by force, from the hand of him oppressing: ye shall not be violent, ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, and ye shall not pour but innocent blood in this place. Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toAliens, God's AttitudeExploitationsBereaved, Care ForSocial JusticeInnocence, Teaching OnOppression, Nature OfOppression, God's Attitude ToOrphansOutsidersRighteousness, Of BelieversSanctity Of LifeViolenceWidows, Should Not BeSheddingOppressing ForeignersSaving PeopleDo Not MurderRobbing PeopleImmigrants


And one poor widow, having come, cast in two small coins, which is a farthing. And having called his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, That this poor widow has cast into the royal treasury, more than all they casting into the treasury:

Wo to those decreeing not decrees, and they wrote writings of labor; To turn away the judgment of the powerless, and to strip off judgment of the distressed of my people, for widows to be their plunder, and they will plunder orphans.

And the vow of a widow, and of her driven away, all which she bound upon her soul shall stand upon her. Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTUnfaithfulness, To PeopleDivorce



If afflicting, thou shalt afflict him, if crying, he shall cry to me, hearing, I will hear his cry. Verse ConceptsAnswered PromisesCries Of Distress To GodGod Pays AttentionHurtvulnerability

Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them. Verse ConceptsGiftsBribery, Results OfExploitationsWicked RulersOppression, Nature OfOrphansReward, HumanRiches, Dangers OfRulersStealingLeadershipRulers, WickedCovetousness, Example OfEvil AssociationsCompanionshipNot Helping Widows


And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies. Verse ConceptsAdultery, Consequences OfGod, Righteousness OfInjustice, Hated By GodMastersMoney, Stewardship OfOppression, Nature OfOrphansPerjuryPoverty, Attitudes TowardsRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfSexual Sin, Nature OfSuffering, Nature OfSuffering, Of The InnocentWagesWidowsAliens, God's AttitudeHirelingsDivinationStrangersEmployersThreateningsOppressing ForeignersSpeedThe Witness Of GodThose OppressedAdulteryNo Fear Of GodNot Helping WidowsSorceryImmigrantswitches


Thou shalt not fear; for thou shalt not be ashamed: and thou shalt not be disgraced, and thou shalt not be put to shame, for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and thou shalt no more remember the reproach of thy widowhood. Verse ConceptsYouthCoping With DeathLimitations Of YouthForgetting ThingsEliminating ShameNot Put To ShameDisappointmentBeing ScaredRemoving People From Your Lifelonliness

The widow and the stranger they will slay, and they will kill the orphan. Verse ConceptsForeignersOppression, Nature OfWidowsCharacter Of WickedOppressing ForeignersNot Helping Widows


Wherefore, the husband living, she shall be called adulteress if she be to another man: but if the man die, she is free from the law; not to be an adulteress, being to another man. Verse ConceptsWithout The LawSex Before Marriageadultry

Wherefore, the husband living, she shall be called adulteress if she be to another man: but if the man die, she is free from the law; not to be an adulteress, being to another man. Verse ConceptsWithout The LawSex Before Marriageadultry

He did evil to the barren; she will not bear: andhewill not do good to the widow. Verse ConceptsAbhorKindnessAttitudes To BarrennessNot Helping Widows


The praise of him perishing will come upon me, and I shall cause the heart of the widow to rejoice. Verse ConceptsWidowsPeople BlessingRejoicing Over Justice

And Peter having risen came with them. Whom having approached, they brought into the upper room: and all the widows stood before him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, being with them. Verse ConceptsClothBereavement, Experience OfStairwaysDressMournersWidowsClothing The NeedyOuter GarmentsInner GarmentsActual WidowsUpper RoomsMourning The Death Of Otherssisterhood

They will lead away the ass of the orphans, and they will take for pledge, the widow's ox. Verse ConceptsOxenCreditAbhorGuaranteeOppression, Nature OfOrphansWidowsCreditorsOwning LivestockNot Helping Widows

Thou didst send away widows empty, and the arms of the orphans will be broken. Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsNot Helping Widows