Thematic Bible: Widow's
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Mite (a lepta) » Widow's
He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.
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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 you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
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and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
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When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh 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 foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Widow's » Were clothed in mourning after the decease of husbands
Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, "Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
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She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, 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 wasn't given to him as a wife.
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She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
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The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, 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 on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
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and my wrath will 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 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 struck of the sword in battle.
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Widow's » Character of true
being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
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and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
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Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions 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 you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
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When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled. You shall say before Yahweh your God, "I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
Widow's » Laws respecting » To share in public rejoicings
and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
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and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Not to be oppressed
'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
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Widow's » Instances of great liberality in
"Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you." 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, "Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink." As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand." read more.
She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die." Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son. For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.'" She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.
She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die." Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son. For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.'" She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.
A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin. He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving 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 towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
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If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.
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Widow's » God » Judges for
He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
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A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Widow's » Were under the special protection of God
He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
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A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Widow's » Should not be » Oppressed
if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
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Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; 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 deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
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Widow's » Often devoted themselves entirely to God's service
being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
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and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
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Widow's » Should be » Relieved by the church
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
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Let no one be enrolled as a widow 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
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
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Let no one be enrolled as a widow 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
Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
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Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
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Widow's » Were frequently oppressed and persecuted
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; 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 brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
Widow's » Laws respecting » Raiment of, not to be taken in pledge by creditors
You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to 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 forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh 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 wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
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Widow's » When young, exposed to may temptations
But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry; having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge. Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. read more.
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
Widow's » Curse for perverting judgment of
'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' 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 you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh 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 the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!
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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 a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
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Widow's » Laws respecting » Not to intermarry with priests
A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.
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Widow's » Intermarrying with, of kings considered treason
She said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife." King Solomon answered his mother, "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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow's borders intact.
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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
"Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who 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; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Thus says Yahweh: Execute 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 foreigner, 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 who are widows indeed.
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Widow's » Though poor, may be liberal
A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin. He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,
Widow's » Woe to those who oppress
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, 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
"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
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Widow's » The wicked » Vex
In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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Widow's » God » Surely hears the cry of
If you take advantage of 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
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
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Widow's » Should be » Pleaded for
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."
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Widow's » God » Will witness against oppressors of
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 perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
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Widow's » God » Relieves
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. 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
"Don't be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.
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Widow's » The wicked » Slay
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
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Widow's » Should be » Visited in affliction
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by 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 would be called an adulteress. But 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 would be called an adulteress. But 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
He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness 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 on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
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Widow's » Saints » Relieve
Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had 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, and 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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- Oppression, Nature Of
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