Thematic Bible: Widow's
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Mite (a lepta) » Widow's
Then he saw a poor widow putting in two small coins.
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Widow's » Should be » Allowed to share in our blessings
This food is for the Levites, since they own no property, and for the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. They are to come and get all they need. Do this, and Jehovah your God will bless you in everything you do.
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Enjoy yourselves in the presence of Jehovah your God along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place Jehovah your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.
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When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat the olives from your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.
Widow's » Were clothed in mourning after the decease of husbands
Joab sent someone to Tekoa to get a wise woman from there. He told her: Please act like a mourner. Dress in mourning clothes. Do not use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.
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She realized that Shelah was now a grown man. She had not been allowed to marry him. So she decided to dress in something other than her widow's clothes and to cover her face with a veil. Then she sat outside the town of Enaim on the road to Timnah.
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After returning home, Tamar took off the veil and dressed in her widow's clothes again.
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The king asked her: What can I do for you? She answered: I am a widow; my husband is dead.
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Widow's » Increase of, threatened as a punishment
Their widows will be more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will send a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring anguish and terror to them.
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and I will become angry and kill you in war. Your wives will become widows, and your children will be fatherless.
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Therefore, give their children over to famine and deliver them up to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
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Widow's » Character of true
having a good reputation for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the holy ones, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.
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She had been a widow eighty-four years. She never left the temple. She worshipped and fasted with supplications day and night.
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Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in supplications and prayers day and night.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » To have a share of the triennial tithe
At the end of every third year bring the tithe of all your crops and store it in your towns.
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Finish paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing. Then you shall give it to the Levite, the stranger, and the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied. Say before Jehovah your God: 'I have removed the sacred portion from my house. I also have given it to the Levite and the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to all your commandments that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed or forgotten any of your commandments.
Widow's » Laws respecting » To share in public rejoicings
Enjoy yourselves in the presence of Jehovah your God along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place Jehovah your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.
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Enjoy yourselves at the festival along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Not to be oppressed
Cursed is he who withholds justice due an alien, orphan, and widow. The people all say: Amen.
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Do not mistreat any widow or orphan.
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Widow's » Instances of great liberality in
Go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and live there. I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food. He went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the town, he saw a widow woman gathering sticks. He said to her: Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink? As she was going to get it, he said: And get me some bread. read more.
Then she said: By the life of Jehovah your God, I have nothing but a little meal, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death. Elijah said to her: Have no fear. Go and do as you said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me. Then make something for yourself and your son. For this is the word of Jehovah, the God of Israel: 'Your supply of meal will not come to an end. The bottle will never be without oil, till the day when Jehovah sends rain on the earth.' She did as Elijah told her and they all had food for a long time.
Then she said: By the life of Jehovah your God, I have nothing but a little meal, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death. Elijah said to her: Have no fear. Go and do as you said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me. Then make something for yourself and your son. For this is the word of Jehovah, the God of Israel: 'Your supply of meal will not come to an end. The bottle will never be without oil, till the day when Jehovah sends rain on the earth.' She did as Elijah told her and they all had food for a long time.
A poor widow came along and dropped in two mites. He told his disciples: Truly I tell you this poor widow gave more then all the others who gave to the collection box.
Widow's » Should be » Relieved by their friends
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
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If any woman that believes has dependant widows, she must assist them and not let the congregation be burdened. Then it can assist those who are actually widows.
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Widow's » God » Judges for
He executes justice for the orphan and the widow. He shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.
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In his holy habitation God is a father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows.
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Widow's » Were under the special protection of God
He executes justice for the orphan and the widow. He shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.
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In his holy habitation God is a father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows.
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Widow's » Should not be » Oppressed
if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin,
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Do not oppress the widow. Do not oppress the fatherless. Do not oppress the stranger and do not oppress the poor. And you should not devise evil in your heart against your brother.
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Widow's » The wicked » Make a prey of
They deprive the poor of justice. They take away the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and rob orphans.
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Widow's » Often devoted themselves entirely to God's service
having a good reputation for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the holy ones, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.
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She had been a widow eighty-four years. She never left the temple. She worshipped and fasted with supplications day and night.
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Widow's » Should be » Relieved by the church
The number of disciples increased at that time. A murmuring arose on the part of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.
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Let a widow be put on the list if she is under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
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Widow's » Specially taken care of by the primitive church
The number of disciples increased at that time. A murmuring arose on the part of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.
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Let a widow be put on the list if she is under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
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Widow's » Not to be deplored by, considered a great calamity
The plague will bury those who survive him. Their widows will not weep for them.
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His priests were cut down with swords. The widows of his priests could not even weep for them.
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Widow's » Were frequently oppressed and persecuted
They drive away the donkey of the orphan. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you.'
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Widow's » Laws respecting » When left childless, to be married by their husband's nearest of kin
When brothers live together and one of them dies without a son the wife of the deceased shall not marry outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall marry her and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. The firstborn son she bears will assume the name of the dead brother. That way his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
Widow's » Laws respecting » Raiment of, not to be taken in pledge by creditors
Do not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan. Do not take a widow's garment in 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 back to get it. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that Jehovah 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
Do not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan. Do not take a widow's garment in pledge.
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Widow's » When young, exposed to may temptations
Refuse younger widows: for when their sexual impulses come between them and Christ, they desire to marry. They have judgment, because they have rejected their first pledge. They also learn to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but gossipers and busybodies, speaking things that they should not. read more.
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.
Widow's » Curse for perverting judgment of
Cursed is he who withholds justice due an alien, orphan, and widow. The people all say: Amen.
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Widow's » Blessings on those who relieve
This food is for the Levites, since they own no property, and for the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. They are to come and get all they need. Do this, and Jehovah your God will bless you in everything you do.
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Widow's » Illustrative of » Zion in captivity
She sits alone. She was a town full of people! Once great among the nations she has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced labor!
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Widow's » A type of zion in affliction
We are children without fathers. Our mothers are like widows.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » When daughters of priests and childless, to partake of the holy things
A widowed or divorced daughter who has no children and who has returned to live in her father's house as a dependent may eat the food her father receives as a priest. Only a member of a priestly family may eat any of it.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Not to intermarry with priests
He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has lost her virginity, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from his own people.
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Widow's » Intermarrying with, of kings considered treason
She said: Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother for a wife. Then King Solomon answered: Why are you requesting me to give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah? Take the kingdom for him in addition, for he is my older brother, and Abiathar the priest and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, are on his side. King Solomon took an oath by Jehovah, saying: May God's punishment be on me if Adonijah does not give payment for these words with his life. read more.
Now by the living God Jehovah who has given me my throne from David my father. He made me one of a line of kings. He gave me his word. Adonijah will be put to death this day.
Now by the living God Jehovah who has given me my throne from David my father. He made me one of a line of kings. He gave me his word. Adonijah will be put to death this day.
Widow's » God » Establishes the border of
Jehovah will destroy the house of the proud and he will establish the border of the widow.
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Widow's » Exhorted to trust in God
Abandon your orphans, and I will keep them alive. Your widows can trust me.
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Widow's » Illustrative of » A desolate condition
Hear this you sensual one! You dwell securely and say in your heart: 'I am, and there is no one besides me. I will not sit as a widow. I will not lose children.' (Revelation 18:2-8) Two things will come on you suddenly in one day: Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure in spite of your abundance of sorceries, in spite of the great power of your spells.
Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
This is what Jehovah says: Judge fairly, and do what is right. Rescue those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not mistreat foreigners, orphans, or widows, and do not oppress them. Do not kill innocent people in this place.
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Widow's » Should be » Honored, if widows indeed
Honor widows that are truly widows.
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Widow's » Though poor, may be liberal
A poor widow came along and dropped in two mites. He told his disciples: Truly I tell you this poor widow gave more then all the others who gave to the collection box.
Widow's » Woe to those who oppress
How horrible it will be for those who enact unjust laws and who decree oppressive regulations. They deprive the poor of justice. They take away the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and rob orphans.
Widow's » Laws respecting » Bound to perform their vows
A widow or a divorced woman must keep every vow she makes and every promise to abstain from something.
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Widow's » Should not be » Afflicted
Do not mistreat any widow or orphan.
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Widow's » The wicked » Vex
People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you.'
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Widow's » God » Surely hears the cry of
If you do, I, Jehovah, will answer them when they cry out to me for help,
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Widow's » The wicked » Reject the cause of
Your rulers are rebels, friends with thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They never defend orphans. They do not listen to the widows' pleas.
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Widow's » Should be » Pleaded for
Learn to do good (well) (right). Seek justice. Correct oppressors. Defend orphans. Plead the case of widows.
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Widow's » God » Will witness against oppressors of
I will approach you people for judgment! I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers and those acting fraudulently with the wages of the worker, the widow and the fatherless. I will be a speedy witness against those who swear falsely and take advantage of the stranger, and do not show me reverence, said Jehovah of Hosts.
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Widow's » God » Relieves
Jehovah protects the strangers. He supports the fatherless and the widow, but he overthrows the way of the wicked.
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Widow's » Reproach connected with
Do not be afraid. You will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace. You will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
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Widow's » The wicked » Slay
They kill widows and foreigners, and they murder orphans.
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Widow's » Should be » Visited in affliction
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for the fatherless persons and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.
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Widow's » Were released from all obligation to former husbands
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she will be called an adulteress. If the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
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Widow's » Allowed to marry again
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she will be called an adulteress. If the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
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Widow's » The wicked » Do no good to
They harm the childless woman, and do no good to the widow.
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Widow's » Saints » Disappoint not
If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
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Widow's » Saints » Cause joy to
The blessing of the wretched came upon me. I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
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Widow's » Saints » Relieve
Peter went to them right a way. When he arrived they brought him into the upper chamber. All the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and garments that 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 orphan. 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-handed. You crush the arms of the orphans.
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Related Topics
- Absent Fathers
- Actual Widows
- Aliens
- Aliens, God's Attitude
- Bereaved, Care For
- Exploitations
- Foreigners
- God Caring For Orphans
- Immigrants
- Loving Foreigners
- Not Helping Widows
- Oppressing Foreigners
- Oppression, God's Attitude To
- Oppression, Nature Of
- Orphans
- People Helping Orphans
- Poverty, Attitudes Towards
- Rights
- Social Justice
- Strangers
- Widows
- Widows, Should Be
- Widows, Should Not Be
- Ethics, social