Nave’s Topical Bible
Widow
44 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Vows of, binding
- When they are daughters of priests, they are to be supported By their fathers
- Priests forbidden to marry
- Marriage of, authorized
- Widows' dower
See DOWRY
- UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Exodus 22:22-24; Deuteronomy 10:18; Deuteronomy 14:28-29; Deuteronomy 16:11-14; Deuteronomy 24:17,19-21; Deuteronomy 25:5-10; Deuteronomy 27:19; Job 22:5,9; Job 24:3,21; Job 29:13; Job 31:16,22; Psalms 68:5; Psalms 94:6; Psalms 146:9; Proverbs 15:25; Isaiah 1:17,23; Isaiah 10:1-2; Jeremiah 7:6-7; Jeremiah 22:3; Jeremiah 49:11; Ezekiel 22:7; Zechariah 7:10; Malachi 3:5; Matthew 23:14; Mark 12:40; Luke 20:47; 1 Corinthians 7:8-9; 1 Timothy 5:3-6,9-12,16
- INSTANCES OF
- Naomi
- Ruth
- The widow of Zarephath, who sustained Elijah during a famine
- The woman whose sons Elisha saved from being sold for debt
- Anna
- The woman who gave two mites (leptas) in the temple Courtyard
- The widow of Nain, whose only son Jesus raised from the dead
See WOMEN
Bible verses about “Widow”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Numbers 30:9But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
- Leviticus 22:13But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
- Leviticus 21:14A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
- Romans 7:3So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
- 1 Corinthians 7:39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
- Exodus 22:22Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
- Exodus 22:23If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
- Exodus 22:24And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- Deuteronomy 10:18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
- Deuteronomy 14:28At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
- Deuteronomy 14:29And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
- Deuteronomy 16:11And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
- Deuteronomy 16:12And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
- Deuteronomy 16:13Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
- Deuteronomy 16:14And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
- Deuteronomy 24:17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
- Deuteronomy 24:19When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
- Deuteronomy 24:20When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
- Deuteronomy 24:21When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
- Deuteronomy 25:5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.
- Deuteronomy 25:6And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 25:7And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.
- Deuteronomy 25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
- Deuteronomy 25:9Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother’s house.
- Deuteronomy 25:10And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
- Deuteronomy 27:19Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
- Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
- Job 24:3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
- Job 24:21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
- Job 29:13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
- Job 31:16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
- Job 31:22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
- Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
- Psalms 94:6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
- Psalms 146:9The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
- Proverbs 15:25The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
- Isaiah 1:17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- Isaiah 1:23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
- Isaiah 10:1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;