Bible Verses About Widows

Lodge to night, and it hath been in the morning, if he doth redeem thee, well: he redeemeth; and if he delight not to redeem thee, then I have redeemed thee--I; Jehovah liveth! lie down till the morning.'

and I said, I uncover thine ear, saying, Buy before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people; if thou dost redeem--redeem, and if none doth redeem--declare to me, and I know, for there is none save thee to redeem, and I after thee.' And he saith, I redeem it .'

And Boaz saith, `In the day of thy buying the field from the hand of Naomi, then from Ruth the Moabitess, wife of the dead, thou hast bought it , to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance.'

and Joab sendeth to Tekoah, and taketh thence a wise woman, and saith unto her, `Feign thyself a mourner, I pray thee, and put on, I pray thee, garments of mourning, and anoint not thyself with oil, and thou hast been as a woman these many days mourning for the dead,

And the king saith to her, `What--to thee?' and she saith, `Truly a widow woman am I, and my husband dieth,

And she saith, `Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother for a wife.'

And king Solomon answereth and saith to his mother, `And why art thou asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? also ask for him the kingdom--for he is mine elder brother--even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah.'

And king Solomon sweareth by Jehovah, saying, `Thus doth God to me, and thus He doth add--surely against his soul hath Adonijah spoken this word;

and now, Jehovah liveth, who hath established me, and causeth me to sit on the throne of David my father, and who hath made for me an house as He spake--surely to-day is Adonijah put to death.'

`Rise, go to Zarephath, that is to Zidon, and thou hast dwelt there; lo, I have commanded there a widow woman to sustain thee.'

And he riseth, and goeth to Zarephath, and cometh in unto the opening of the city, and lo there, a widow woman gathering sticks, and he calleth unto her, and saith, `Bring, I pray thee, to me, a little water in a vessel, and I drink.'

And she goeth to bring it , and he calleth unto her and saith, `Bring, I pray thee, to me a morsel of bread in thy hand.'

And she saith, `Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but the fulness of the hand of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a dish; and lo, I am gathering two sticks, and have gone in and prepared it for myself, and for my son, and we have eaten it--and died.'

And Elijah saith unto her, `Fear not, go, do according to thy word, only make for me thence a little cake, in the first place, and thou hast brought out to me; and for thee and for thy son make--last;

for thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, The pitcher of meal is not consumed, and the dish of oil is not lacking, till the day of Jehovah's giving a shower on the face of the ground.'

And she goeth, and doth according to the word of Elijah, and she eateth, she and he, and her household--days;

Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

Treating evil the barren who beareth not, And to the widow he doth no good,

His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.

The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.

If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.

Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.