'Widow' in the Bible
And a poor widow came and dropped in two tiny coins worth very little.
Summoning His disciples, He said to them, “I assure you: This poor widow has put in more than all those giving to the temple treasury.
and was a widow for 84 years. She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.
Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them—but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
Just as He neared 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 large crowd from the city was also with her.
And a widow in that town kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice, so she doesn’t wear me out by her persistent coming.’”
“I tell you the truth,” He said. “This poor widow has put in more than all of them.
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.
The real widow, left all alone, has put her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers;
No widow should be placed on the official support list unless she is at least 60 years old, has been the wife of one husband,
As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,give her that much torment and grief,for she says in her heart,“I sit as a queen;I am not a widow,and I will never see grief.”