Bible Verses About Widows: Were clothed in mourning after the decease of husbands

And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.

And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel which she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood.

Sent to Thecua, and fetched from thence a wise woman: and said to her: Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, and be not anointed with oil, that thou mayest be as a woman that had a long time been mourning for one dead.

And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She answered: Alas, I am a widow woman: for my husband is dead.