Thematic Bible: Widow's
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Mite (a lepta) » Widow's
And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in there two mites.
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Widow's » Should be » Allowed to share in our blessings
And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
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And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there.
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When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Widow's » Were clothed in mourning after the decease of husbands
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and brought from there a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray you, pretend to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not yourself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
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And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him as wife.
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And she arose, and went away, and laid by her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
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And the king said unto her, What ails you? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.
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Widow's » Increase of, threatened as a punishment
Their widows are 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 him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
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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 children fatherless.
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Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
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Widow's » Character of true
Well reported of for good works; if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.
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And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
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Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in supplications 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 three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
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When you have finished tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled; Then you shall say before the LORD your God, I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
Widow's » Laws respecting » To share in public rejoicings
And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there.
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And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Not to be oppressed
Cursed be he that perverts the justice due the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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Widow's » Instances of great liberality in
Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain you. So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray you, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to bring it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray you, a morsel of bread in your hand. read more.
And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I have not bread, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a jar: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as you have said: but make me from it a little loaf first, and bring it unto me, and after that make some for you and for your son. For thus says the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not run out, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I have not bread, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a jar: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as you have said: but make me from it a little loaf first, and bring it unto me, and after that make some for you and for your son. For thus says the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not run out, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow has cast more in, than all they who have cast into the treasury:
Widow's » Should be » Relieved by their friends
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and so repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
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If any man or woman that believes has widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
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Widow's » God » Judges for
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and clothing.
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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 stranger, in giving him food and clothing.
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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 you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
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And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine 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 take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.
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Widow's » Often devoted themselves entirely to God's service
Well reported of for good works; if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.
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And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
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Widow's » Should be » Relieved by the church
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.
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Let not a widow be put on the list under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
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Widow's » Specially taken care of by the primitive church
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.
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Let not a widow be put on the list under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
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Widow's » Not to be deplored by, considered a great calamity
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
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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 you have they made light of father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they 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 brethren dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. And it shall be, that the firstborn that she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
Widow's » Laws respecting » Raiment of, not to be taken in pledge by creditors
You shall not pervert the justice due the stranger, nor the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as pledge:
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Widow's » Laws respecting » To be allowed to glean in fields and vineyards
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
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Widow's » Should not be » Deprived of raiment in pledge
You shall not pervert the justice due the stranger, nor the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as pledge:
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Widow's » When young, exposed to may temptations
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they will marry; Having judgment, because they have cast off their first faith. And at the same time they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but gossips also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. read more.
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, rule the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, rule the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Widow's » Curse for perverting judgment of
Cursed be he that perverts the justice due the stranger, 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 part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
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Widow's » Illustrative of » Zion in captivity
How does the city sit lovely, that was full of people! how has she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how has she become a slave!
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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 the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's food: but there shall no stranger eat of it.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Not to intermarry with priests
A widow, or a divorced woman, or defiled, or a harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.
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Widow's » Intermarrying with, of kings considered treason
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as his wife. And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why do you 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 Zeruiah. Then king Solomon swore by the 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 the 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, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
Now therefore, as the 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, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
Widow's » God » Establishes the border of
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the boundary of the widow.
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Widow's » Exhorted to trust in God
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
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Widow's » Illustrative of » A desolate condition
Therefore hear now this, you that are given to pleasures, that dwell securely, that say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon you in their fullness for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great abundance of your enchantments.
Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Thus says the LORD; Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
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Widow's » Should be » Honored, if widows indeed
Honor widows that are widows indeed.
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Widow's » Though poor, may be liberal
And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow has cast more in, than all they who have cast into the treasury:
Widow's » Woe to those who oppress
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write misfortune which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from justice, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Widow's » Laws respecting » Bound to perform their vows
But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, with which they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
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Widow's » Should not be » Afflicted
You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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Widow's » The wicked » Vex
In you have they made light of father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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Widow's » God » Surely hears the cry of
If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
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Widow's » The wicked » Reject the cause of
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before 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 for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
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Widow's » God » Relieves
The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves 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 you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more.
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Widow's » The wicked » Slay
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
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Widow's » Should be » Visited in affliction
Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and 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 if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband dies, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she is married to another man.
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Widow's » Allowed to marry again
So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband dies, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she is married to another man.
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Widow's » The wicked » Do no good to
He evil treats the barren that bears not: and does not 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 that 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
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was 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
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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- Loving Foreigners
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- Oppression, Nature Of
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