8 Bible Verses about Actual Widows
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and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.
and Elijah was not sent to one of them, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
As he came up to the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out; he was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A crowd of the townspeople was with her.
A poor widow came up and dropped in two little copper coins which make a cent.
But, I tell you, there were plenty of widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine all over the land,
Peter went with them at once. When he arrived, they took him up to the room and all the widows stood around him crying and showing him the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made when she was still with them.
He gave her his hand and raised her to her feet, and calling in the believers and the widows, he gave her back to them alive.