TOPICAL BIBLE
Widow
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Exodus 22:22“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.Exodus 22:23If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;Exodus 22:24and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.Leviticus 21:14A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.Leviticus 22:13But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.Numbers 30:9“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.Deuteronomy 10:18He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.Deuteronomy 14:28At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:Deuteronomy 14:29and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.Deuteronomy 16:11and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.Deuteronomy 16:12You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.Deuteronomy 16:13You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:Deuteronomy 16:14and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.Deuteronomy 24:17You shall not deprive the foreigner, or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;Deuteronomy 24:19When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.Deuteronomy 24:20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.Deuteronomy 24:21When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.Deuteronomy 25:5If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.Deuteronomy 25:6It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.Deuteronomy 25:7If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”Deuteronomy 25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, “I don’t want to take her;”Deuteronomy 25:9then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”Deuteronomy 25:10His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.Deuteronomy 27:19‘Cursed is he who the foreigner, fatherless, and widow of justice.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’Ruth 1:3Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.2 Kings 4:1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”2 Kings 4:2Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”2 Kings 4:3Then he said, “Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don’t borrow just a few.2 Kings 4:4You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that which is full.”2 Kings 4:5So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out.2 Kings 4:6It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” The oil stopped flowing.2 Kings 4:7Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”Job 22:5Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.Job 24:21He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.Job 29:13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.Job 31:16“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,Job 31:22then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.Psalm 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.Psalm 94:6They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.Psalm 146:9Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.Proverbs 15:25Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.Isaiah 1:17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”Isaiah 1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;Isaiah 10:2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!Jeremiah 7:6if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:Jeremiah 7:7then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.Jeremiah 22:3Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.Jeremiah 49:11Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.Zechariah 7:10Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’Malachi 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.Matthew 23:14“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.Mark 12:40those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”Mark 12:41Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.Mark 12:42A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.Mark 12:43He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,Mark 12:44for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”Luke 2:36There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
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