Widow

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Numbers 30:9 OT

  “But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.

• Leviticus 22:13 OT

  But 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.

• Leviticus 21:14 OT

  He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.

• Romans 7:3 NT

  So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

• 1 Corinthians 7:39 NT

  A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

• Exodus 22:22-24 OT

  “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives…

• Deuteronomy 10:18 OT

  He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

• Deuteronomy 14:28 OT

  At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 14:29 OT

  The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless…

• Deuteronomy 16:11-14 OT

  You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh…

• Deuteronomy 24:17 OT

  You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

• Deuteronomy 24:19-21 OT

  When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten 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…

• Deuteronomy 25:5-10 OT

  If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has 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 as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s…

• Deuteronomy 27:19 OT

  ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Job 22:5 OT

  Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

• Job 22:9 OT

  You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

• Job 24:3 OT

  They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

• Job 24:21 OT

  He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

• Job 29:13 OT

  the 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 OT

  “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

• Job 31:22 OT

  then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

• Psalms 68:5 OT

  A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

• Psalms 94:6 OT

  They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

• Psalms 146:9 OT

  Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.