'Widow' in the Bible
"Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.'
"Teacher, Moses wrote for us: 'If a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.'
And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, worth less than a penny.
He called his disciples and said to them, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the offering box than all the others.
She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother (who was a widow), and a large crowd from the town was with her.
There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice against my adversary.'
yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.'"
They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.
He said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.
But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.
No widow should be put on the list unless she is at least sixty years old, was the wife of one husband,
As much as she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself, 'I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!'