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

She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.