Thematic Bible: Widow's
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Mite (a lepta) » Widow's
And he saw also a certain poor widow, which cast in thither two mites.
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Widow's » Should be » Allowed to share in our blessings
and the Levite shall come because he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow which are within thy city, and shall eat and fill themselves: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the works of thine hand which thou doest.
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And rejoice before the LORD thy God: both thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there.
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When thou cuttest down thine harvest in the field and hast forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again and fetch it: But it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand. When thou beatest down thine olive trees thou shalt not make clean riddance after thee: but it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow. And when thou gatherest thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather clean after thee: but it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow.
Widow's » Were clothed in mourning after the decease of husbands
he sent to Tekoa, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, "Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel. And anoint not thyself with oil. But be as a woman that had long time mourned for the death of somebody.
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And she put her widow's garments off from her and covered her with a cloak, and disguised herself: And sat her down at the entering of Enaim which is by the high way's side to Timnath, for because she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
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And she gat her up and went and put her mantle from her, and put on her widow's raiment again.
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And the king said unto her, "What aileth thee?" And she answered, "I am a widow, and mine husband is dead.
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Widow's » Increase of, threatened as a punishment
I will make their widows more in number than the sands of the sea. Upon the mothers of their children, I shall bring a destroyer in the noonday. Suddenly and unawares, shall I send a fear upon their cities.
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and then will my wrath wax hot and I will kill you with sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.
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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.
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Widow's » Character of true
and well reported of in good works: if she have nourished children, if she have been liberal to strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered unto them which were in adversity, if she were continually given unto all manner good works.
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And she had been a widow about four score and four years of age, which went never out of the temple, but served God there with fasting and prayer night and day.
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She that is a very widow, and friendless, putteth her trust in God, and continueth in supplication and prayer 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, thou shalt bring forth all the tithes of thine increase the same year and lay it up within thine own city,
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When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, the year of tithing - and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, and they have eaten in thy gates and filled themselves - then say before the LORD thy God, 'I have brought thee hallowed things out of mine house: and have given them unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow according to all the commandments which thou commandest me: I have not overskipped thy commandments, nor forgotten them.
Widow's » Laws respecting » To share in public rejoicings
And rejoice before the LORD thy God: both thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there.
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And thou shalt rejoice in that thy feast; both thou and thy son, thy daughter, thy servant, thy maid, the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are in thy cities.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Not to be oppressed
"'Cursed be he that hindereth the right of the stranger, fatherless and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:
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Widow's » Instances of great liberality in
"Up, and get thee to Zarephath a city of Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee." And he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, there was a widow there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, "Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a dish that I may drink." And as she went to fetch it, he cried to her and said, "Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand." read more.
And she answered, "As surely as the LORD thy God liveth, I have no bread, but even a handful of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse. And see, I have gathered a few sticks for to go and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it and then die." And Elijah said unto her, "Fear not, but go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first of all, and bring it out to me, and afterward make for thee and thy son. For thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'The pitcher of meal shall not be wasted, neither shall thy oil cruse be without oil, until the LORD have sent rain upon the earth.'" And she went and did as Elijah bade. And she and he and her house did eat a good space,
And she answered, "As surely as the LORD thy God liveth, I have no bread, but even a handful of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse. And see, I have gathered a few sticks for to go and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it and then die." And Elijah said unto her, "Fear not, but go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first of all, and bring it out to me, and afterward make for thee and thy son. For thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'The pitcher of meal shall not be wasted, neither shall thy oil cruse be without oil, until the LORD have sent rain upon the earth.'" And she went and did as Elijah bade. And she and he and her house did eat a good space,
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 hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury.
Widow's » Should be » Relieved by their friends
If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God.
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And if any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them minister unto them, and let not the congregation be charged: that it may have sufficient for them that are widows indeed.
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Widow's » God » Judges for
but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.
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He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.
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Widow's » Were under the special protection of God
but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.
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He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.
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Widow's » Should not be » Oppressed
If ye will not oppress the stranger, the fatherless and the widow; if ye will not shed innocent blood in this place; if ye will not cleave to strange gods to your own destruction;
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Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."
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Widow's » The wicked » Make a prey of
wherethrough the poor are oppressed on every side, and the innocents of my people are therewith robbed of judgment: that widows may be your prey, and that ye may rob the fatherless.
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Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, for ye devour widows' houses: and that, under a colour of praying long prayers, wherefore ye shall receive greater damnation.
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Widow's » Often devoted themselves entirely to God's service
and well reported of in good works: if she have nourished children, if she have been liberal to strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered unto them which were in adversity, if she were continually given unto all manner good works.
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And she had been a widow about four score and four years of age, which went never out of the temple, but served God there with fasting and prayer night and day.
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Widow's » Should be » Relieved by the church
In those days, as the number of the disciples grew, there arose a grudge among the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were despised in the daily ministration.
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Let no widow be chosen under sixty years old, and such a one as was the wife of one man,
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Widow's » Specially taken care of by the primitive church
In those days, as the number of the disciples grew, there arose a grudge among the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were despised in the daily ministration.
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Let no widow be chosen under sixty years old, and such a one as was the wife of one man,
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Widow's » Not to be deplored by, considered a great calamity
Look, whom he leaveth behind him, they shall die and be buried, and no man shall have pity of his widows.
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Their priests were slain with the sword, and there were no widows to made lamentation.
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Widow's » Were frequently oppressed and persecuted
that drive away the ass of the fatherless; that take the widow's ox for a pledge;
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In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » When left childless, to be married by their husband's nearest of kin
When brethren dwell together and one of them die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not be given out unto a stranger: but her brother-in-law shall go in unto her and take her to wife and marry her. And the eldest son which she beareth, shall stand up in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out in Israel.
Widow's » Laws respecting » Raiment of, not to be taken in pledge by creditors
Hinder not the right of the stranger nor of the fatherless, nor take widow's raiment to pledge.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » To be allowed to glean in fields and vineyards
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in the field and hast forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again and fetch it: But it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand.
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Widow's » Should not be » Deprived of raiment in pledge
Hinder not the right of the stranger nor of the fatherless, nor take widow's raiment to pledge.
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Widow's » When young, exposed to may temptations
The younger widows refuse. For when they have begun to wax wanton, to the dishonour of Christ, then will they marry, having damnation, because they have broken their first faith. And also they learn to go from house to house idle, yea not idle only, but also trifling and busybodies, speaking things which are not comely. read more.
I will therefore that the younger women marry and bear children, and guide the house, and give none occasion to the adversary to speak evil.
I will therefore that the younger women marry and bear children, and guide the house, and give none occasion to the adversary to speak evil.
Widow's » Curse for perverting judgment of
"'Cursed be he that hindereth the right of 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 shall come because he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow which are within thy city, and shall eat and fill themselves: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the works of thine hand which thou doest.
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Widow's » Illustrative of » Zion in captivity
{Aleph} Alas, how sitteth the city so desolate, that some time was full of people? How is she become like a widow, which was the lady of all nations? How is she brought under tribute, that ruled all lands?
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Widow's » A type of zion in affliction
We are become careful and fatherless, and our mothers are as the widows.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » When daughters of priests and childless, to partake of the holy things
Notwithstanding, if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, but is returned unto her father's house again, she shall eat of her father's bread as well as she did in her youth. But there shall no stranger eat thereof.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Not to intermarry with priests
but no widow nor divorced nor polluted whore. But he shall take a maiden of his own people to wife,
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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 unto his mother, "Why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? But rather ask for him the kingdom, seeing he is mine elder brother! Even for him ask it; and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah." Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, "God do so to me and so thereto if Adonijah have not spoken this word against himself. read more.
Now therefore as surely as the LORD liveth which hath established me and set me on the seat of David my father, and which hath made me a house as he promised me, Adonijah shall die this day."
Now therefore as surely as the LORD liveth which hath established me and set me on the seat of David my father, and which hath made me a house as he promised me, Adonijah shall die this day."
Widow's » God » Establishes the border of
The LORD will break down the house of the proud; but he shall make fast the borders of the widow.
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Widow's » Exhorted to trust in God
Thou shalt leave thy fatherless children behind thee, and I will keep them, and thy widows shall take their comfort in me.
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Widow's » Illustrative of » A desolate condition
Hear now therefore, thou willful, that sittest so careless, and speakest thus in thine heart, "I am alone, and without me is there none; I shall never be widow, nor desolate again." And yet both these things shall come to thee upon one day, in the twinkling of an eye: Namely widowhood, and desolation. They shall mightily fall upon thee, for the multitude of thy witches, and for the great heap of thy conjurers.
Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Thus the LORD commandeth: Keep equity and righteousness, deliver the oppressed from the power of the violent: do not grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless nor the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place.
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Widow's » Should be » Honored, if widows indeed
Honour widows which are true widows.
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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 hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury.
Widow's » Woe to those who oppress
Woe be unto you that make unrighteous laws, and devise things, which be too hard for to keep: wherethrough the poor are oppressed on every side, and the innocents of my people are therewith robbed of judgment: that widows may be your prey, and that ye may rob the fatherless.
Widow's » Laws respecting » Bound to perform their vows
The vow of a widow and of her that is divorced, and all that they have bound their souls withal, shall stand in effect with them.
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Widow's » Should not be » Afflicted
Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:
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Widow's » The wicked » Vex
In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.
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Widow's » God » Surely hears the cry of
If ye shall trouble them, they shall cry unto me, and I will surely hear their cry;
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Widow's » The wicked » Reject the cause of
Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.
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Widow's » Should be » Pleaded for
Study to do righteously, and help the oppressed. Avenge the fatherless and defend the cause of widows. Come, let us show each his grief to other and make an atonement, saith the LORD.
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Widow's » God » Will witness against oppressors of
I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.
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Widow's » God » Relieves
The LORD careth for the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow. As for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down.
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Widow's » Reproach connected with
Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded. Be not ashamed, for thou shalt not come to confusion. Yea, thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the dishonour of thy widowhood.
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Widow's » The wicked » Slay
They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.
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Widow's » Should be » Visited in affliction
Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.
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Widow's » Were released from all obligation to former husbands
So then, if while the man liveth she couple herself with another man, she shall be counted a wedlock-breaker. But if the man be dead she is free from the law: so that she is no wedlock-breaker, though she couple herself with another man.
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Widow's » Allowed to marry again
So then, if while the man liveth she couple herself with another man, she shall be counted a wedlock-breaker. But if the man be dead she is free from the law: so that she is no wedlock-breaker, though she couple herself with another man.
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Widow's » The wicked » Do no good to
For they maintain the barren, and make them that they cannot bear, and unto widows they do no good.
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Widow's » Saints » Disappoint not
"When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain?
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Widow's » Saints » Cause joy to
He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me.
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Widow's » Saints » Relieve
Peter arose and came with them: And when he was come, they brought him into the chamber, and all the widows stood round about 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
that drive away the ass of the fatherless; that take the widow's ox for a pledge;
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Widow's » The wicked » Send, away empty
Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless.
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