8 Bible Verses about Actual Widows
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She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.
and yet Elijah was not sent to a single one of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
As He approached the gate of the town, look, there was being carried out a dead man, his mother's only son, and she was a widow! A considerable crowd of townspeople were with her.
Then a poor widow came and dropped in two little copper coins, which make scarcely a cent.
Then He saw a poor widow drop in two little coins which make scarcely a cent.
But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the heaven was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine over all the land,
So Peter at once got up and went with them. When he reached there, they took him to the room upstairs, and all the widows took their stand around him, crying and showing him the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
He gave her his hand and lifted her to her feet, and calling in the Lord's people and the widows, he gave her back to them alive.