'Widows' in the Bible
My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless.
When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the 10 concubines he had left to take care of the palace and placed them under guard. He provided for them, but he was not intimate with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
You sent widows away empty-handed,and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Those who survive him will be buried by the plague,yet their widows will not weep for them.
God in His holy dwelling isa father of the fatherlessand a champion of widows.
His priests fell by the sword,but the widows could not lament.
Therefore the Lord does not rejoiceover Israel’s young menand has no compassionon its fatherless and widows,for everyone is a godless evildoer,and every mouth speaks folly.In all this, His anger is not removed,and His hand is still raised to strike.
to keep the poor from getting a fair trialand to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,so that widows can be their spoiland they can plunder the fatherless.
I made their widows more numerousthan the sand of the seas.I brought a destroyer at noonagainst the mother of young men.I suddenly released on heragitation and terrors.
Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;let your widows trust in Me.
We have become orphans, fatherless;our mothers are widows.
The conspiracy of her prophets within her is like a roaring lion tearing its prey: they devour people, seize wealth and valuables, and multiply the widows within her.
[“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and make long prayers just for show. This is why you will receive a harsher punishment.]
They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher punishment.”
But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.
They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive greater punishment.”
In those days, as the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.
So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him to the room upstairs. And all the widows approached him, weeping and showing him the robes and clothes that Dorcas had made while she was with them.
He gave her his hand and helped her stand up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her alive.
I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.
But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when they are drawn away from Christ by desire, they want to marry
If any believing woman has widows in her family, she should help them, and the church should not be burdened, so that it can help those who are genuinely widows.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.