Widows
60 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
52 sections
- A Desolate Condition
- A Type of Zion in Affliction
- Allowed to Marry Again
- Blessings on Those Who Relieve
- Character of True
- Curse for Perverting Judgment of
- Exhorted to Trust in God
- God: Establishes the Border of
- God: Judges For
- God: Relieves
- God: Surely Hears the Cry of
- God: Will Witness Against Oppressors of
- Great Liberality In
- Increase of, Threatened As a Punishment
- Intermarrying With, of Kings Considered Treason
- Laws Respecting: Bound to Perform Their Vows
- Laws Respecting: Not to be Oppressed
- Laws Respecting: Not to Intermarry with Priests
- Laws Respecting: Raiment of, not to be Taken in Pledge by Creditors
- Laws Respecting: To be Allowed to Glean in Fields and Vineyards
- Laws Respecting: To Have a Share of the Triennial Tithe
- Laws Respecting: To Share in Public Rejoicings
- Laws Respecting: when Daughters of Priests and Childless to Partake of The
- Laws Respecting: when Left Childless, to be Married by Their Husband's
- Not to be Deplored By, Considered a Great Calamity
- Often Devoted Themselves Entirely to God's Service
- Reproach Connected With
- Saints: Cause Joy To
- Saints: Disappoint Not
- Saints: Relieve
- should be Allowed to Share in Our Blessings
- should be Honored, If Widows Indeed
- should be Pleaded For
- should be Relieved by the Church
- should be Relieved by Their Friends
- should be Visited in Affliction
- should not Be: Afflicted
- should not Be: Deprived of Raiment in Pledge
- should not Be: Oppressed
- should not Be: Treated with Violence
- Specially Taken Care of by the Church
- The Wicked: do No Good To
- The Wicked: Make a Prey of
- The Wicked: Reject the Cause of
- The Wicked: Send, Away Empty
- The Wicked: Slay
- The Wicked: Take Pledges From
- The Wicked: Vex
- Though Poor, May be Liberal
- when Young, Exposed to May Temptations
- Woe to Those Who Oppress
- Zion in Captivity
A Desolate Condition
- Isaiah 47:8–9 So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’ …
A Type of Zion in Affliction
- Lamentations 5:3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
Allowed to Marry Again
- Romans 7:3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
Blessings on Those Who Relieve
- Deuteronomy 14:29 Then 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.
Character of True
- Luke 2:37 and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
- 1 Timothy 5:5 The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
- 1 Timothy 5:10 and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.
Curse for Perverting Judgment of
- Deuteronomy 27:19 ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Exhorted to Trust in God
- Jeremiah 49:11 Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
God: Establishes the Border of
- Proverbs 15:25 The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
God: Judges For
- Deuteronomy 10:18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.
God: Relieves
- Psalm 146:9 The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
God: Surely Hears the Cry of
- Exodus 22:23 If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.
God: Will Witness Against Oppressors of
- 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 …
Great Liberality In
- 1 Kings 17:9–15 “Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” …
- Mark 12:42–43 Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius. …
Increase of, Threatened As a Punishment
- Exodus 22:24 My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
- Jeremiah 15:8 I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
- Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Intermarrying With, of Kings Considered Treason
- 1 Kings 2:21–24 So Bathsheba said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife.” …
Laws Respecting: Bound to Perform Their Vows
- Numbers 30:9 Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.
Laws Respecting: Not to be Oppressed
- Exodus 22:22 You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
- Deuteronomy 27:19 ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Laws Respecting: Not to Intermarry with Priests
- Leviticus 21:14 He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,
Laws Respecting: Raiment of, not to be Taken in Pledge by Creditors
- Deuteronomy 24:17 Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
Laws Respecting: To be Allowed to Glean in Fields and Vineyards
- Deuteronomy 24:19 If 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.
Laws Respecting: To Have a Share of the Triennial Tithe
- Deuteronomy 14:28–29 At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates. …
- Deuteronomy 26:12–13 When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates. …
Laws Respecting: To Share in Public Rejoicings
- Deuteronomy 16:11 and 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, …
- Deuteronomy 16:14 And 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.
Laws Respecting: when Daughters of Priests and Childless to Partake of The
- Leviticus 22:13 But 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.
Laws Respecting: when Left Childless, to be Married by Their Husband's
- Deuteronomy 25:5–6 When 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. …
- Ruth 3:10–13 Then Boaz said, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor. …
- Ruth 4:4–5 I thought I should inform you that you may buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do so. But if you will not redeem it, tell me so I may know, …
- Matthew 22:24–26 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. …
Not to be Deplored By, Considered a Great Calamity
- Job 27:15 His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.
- Psalm 78:64 His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
Often Devoted Themselves Entirely to God's Service
- Luke 2:37 and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
- 1 Timothy 5:10 and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.
Reproach Connected With
- Isaiah 54:4 Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
Saints: Cause Joy To
- Job 29:13 The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
Saints: Disappoint Not
- Job 31:16 If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
Saints: Relieve
- Acts 9:39 So Peter got up and went with them. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
should be Allowed to Share in Our Blessings
- Deuteronomy 14:29 Then 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 16:11 and 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, …
- Deuteronomy 16:14 And 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 24:19–21 If 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. …
should be Honored, If Widows Indeed
- 1 Timothy 5:3 Honor the widows who are truly widows.
should be Pleaded For
- Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
should be Relieved by the Church
- Acts 6:1 In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
- 1 Timothy 5:9 A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, faithful to her husband,
should be Relieved by Their Friends
- 1 Timothy 5:4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
- 1 Timothy 5:16 If any believing woman has dependent widows, she must assist them and not allow the church to be burdened, so that it can help the widows who are truly in need.
should be Visited in Affliction
- James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
should not Be: Afflicted
- Exodus 22:22 You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
should not Be: Deprived of Raiment in Pledge
- Deuteronomy 24:17 Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
should not Be: Oppressed
- Jeremiah 7:6 if 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,
- Zechariah 7:10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
should not Be: Treated with Violence
- Jeremiah 22:3 This 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.
Specially Taken Care of by the Church
- Acts 6:1 In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
- 1 Timothy 5:9 A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, faithful to her husband,
The Wicked: do No Good To
- Job 24:21 They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
The Wicked: Make a Prey of
- Isaiah 10:2 to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
- Matthew 23:14
The Wicked: Reject the Cause of
- Isaiah 1:23 Your 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.
The Wicked: Send, Away Empty
- Job 22:9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
The Wicked: Slay
- Psalm 94:6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
The Wicked: Take Pledges From
- Job 24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
The Wicked: Vex
- Ezekiel 22:7 Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
Though Poor, May be Liberal
- Mark 12:42–43 Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius. …
when Young, Exposed to May Temptations
- 1 Timothy 5:11–14 But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry, …
Woe to Those Who Oppress
- Isaiah 10:1–2 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, …
Zion in Captivity
- Lamentations 1:1 How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.