Bible Verses About Widows

Stay tonight. If, in the morning, he will redeem you, fine! - let him redeem you. But if he doesn't want to redeem you, then, as ADONAI lives, I will redeem you. Now, lie down until morning."

I thought I should tell you about it and say, 'Buy it in the presence of the people sitting here and in the presence of the leaders of my people. If you want to redeem it, redeem it. But if it is not to be redeemed, then tell me, so that I can know, because there is no one else in line to redeem it, and I'm after you." He said, "I want to redeem it."

Then Bo'az said, "The same day you buy the field from Na'omi, you must also buy Rut the woman from Mo'av, the wife of the deceased [son], in order to raise up in the name of the deceased an heir for his property."

so Yo'av sent to T'koa, brought from there a clever woman and said to her, "Please, pretend you're a mourner. Put on mourning clothes, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but appear to be a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.

The king said to her, "What's the trouble?"She answered, "I'm a widow. After my husband died,

She said, "Let Avishag the Shunamit be given to Adoniyah your brother as his wife."

King Shlomo answered his mother, "Why are you asking Avishag the Shunamit for Adoniyah? Ask the kingdom for him too! After all, he's my older brother! Yes, for him, and for Evyatar the cohen and for Yo'av the son of Tz'ruyah!"

Then King Shlomo swore by ADONAI, "May God do terrible things to me and worse if Adoniyah hasn't condemned himself to death with this request!

Now therefore, as ADONAI lives, who has established me, put me on the throne of David my father and set up a dynasty for me, as he promised, Adoniyah will certainly be put to death today."

"Get up; go to Tzarfat, a village in Tzidon; and live there. I have ordered a widow there to provide for you."

So he set out and went to Tzarfat. On reaching the gate of the city, he saw a widow there gathering sticks. He called out to her, "Please bring a little water in a container for me to drink."

As she was going to get it, he called after her, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand."

She answered, "As ADONAI your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a pot and a little oil in the jug. Here I am, gathering a couple sticks of wood, so that I can go and cook it for myself and my son. After we have eaten that, we will die."

Eliyahu said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go; and do what you said; but first, use a little of it to make me a small loaf of bread; and bring it out to me. After that, make food for yourself and your son.

For this is what ADONAI the God of Isra'el, says: 'The pot of meal will not get used up, nor will there fail to be oil in the jug, until the day ADONAI sends rain down on the land.'"

She went and acted according to what Eliyahu had said; and she, he and her household had food to eat for a long time.

you sent widows away empty-handed and left the arms of orphans crushed.

they drive away the orphan's donkey; as collateral, they seize the widow's ox.

They devour childless women and give no help to widows.

Those of his who remain are buried by plague, and their widows do not weep.

Those who had been about to die would bless me, and I made widows sing in their hearts for joy.

"If I held back anything needed by the poor or made a widow's eye grow dim [with tears],

God in his holy dwelling, is a father to orphans and defender of widows.

their cohanim fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.

They kill widows and strangers and murder the fatherless.