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Widow
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Exodus 22:22You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.Exodus 22:23If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.Exodus 22:24My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.Leviticus 21:14He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,Leviticus 22:13But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.Numbers 30:9Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.Deuteronomy 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.Deuteronomy 14:28At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates.Deuteronomy 14:29Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.Deuteronomy 16:11and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.Deuteronomy 16:12Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.Deuteronomy 16:13You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.Deuteronomy 16:14And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.Deuteronomy 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.Deuteronomy 24:19If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.Deuteronomy 24:20When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.Deuteronomy 24:21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.Deuteronomy 25:5When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.Deuteronomy 25:6The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.Deuteronomy 25:7But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”Deuteronomy 25:8Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”Deuteronomy 25:9his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”Deuteronomy 25:10And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”Deuteronomy 27:19‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’Ruth 1:3Then Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,2 Kings 4:1Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”2 Kings 4:2“How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”2 Kings 4:3“Go,” said Elisha, “borrow empty jars from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.2 Kings 4:4Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these jars, setting the full ones aside.”2 Kings 4:5So she left him, and after she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing jars to her, and she kept pouring.2 Kings 4:6When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another.” But he replied, “There are no more jars.” Then the oil stopped flowing.2 Kings 4:7She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”Job 22:5Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.Job 24:21They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.Job 29:13The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.Job 31:16If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,Job 31:22then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.Psalm 68:5A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.Psalm 94:6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.Psalm 146:9The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.Proverbs 15:25The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.Isaiah 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,Isaiah 10:2to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.Jeremiah 7:6if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,Jeremiah 7:7then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.Jeremiah 22:3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.Jeremiah 49:11Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”Zechariah 7:10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.Matthew 23:14Mark 12:40They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”Mark 12:41As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts.Mark 12:42Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.Mark 12:43Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury.Mark 12:44For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”Luke 2:36There was also a prophetess named Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, who was well along in years. She had been married for seven years,
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