TOPICAL STUDY

WIDOW

EXO 22:22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

EXO 22:23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will

surely hear their cry;

EXO 22:24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and

your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

DEU 10:18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth

the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

DEU 14:28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of

thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

DEU 14:29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,)

and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates,

shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee

in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

DEU 16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son,

and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that

is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that

are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name

there.

DEU 16:12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou

shalt observe and do these statutes.

DEU 16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that

thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

DEU 16:14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy

daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger,

and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

DEU 24:17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the

fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

DEU 24:19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a

sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the

stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless

thee in all the work of thine hands.

DEU 24:20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs

again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

DEU 24:21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean

it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the

widow.

DEU 25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child,

the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's

brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty

of an husband's brother unto her.

DEU 25:6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in

the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

DEU 25:7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his

brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother

refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the

duty of my husband's brother.

DEU 25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if

he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;

DEU 25:9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the

elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall

answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his

brother's house.

DEU 25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath

his shoe loosed.

DEU 27:19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger,

fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

JOB 22:5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

JOB 24:3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox

for a pledge.

JOB 24:21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to

the widow.

JOB 29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I

caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

JOB 31:16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the

eyes of the widow to fail;

JOB 31:22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken

from the bone.

PSA 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his

holy habitation.

PSA 94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

PSA 146:9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and

widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

PRO 15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish

the border of the widow.

ISA 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the

fatherless, plead for the widow.

ISA 1:23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one

loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless,

neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

ISA 10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write

grievousness which they have prescribed;

ISA 10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from

the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the

fatherless!

JER 7:6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed

not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

JER 7:7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave

to your fathers, for ever and ever.

JER 22:3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and

deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no

violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent

blood in this place.

JER 49:11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let

thy widows trust in me.

ZEC 7:10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the

poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

MAL 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness

against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers,

and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the

fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me,

saith the LORD of hosts.

MAT 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour

widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive

the greater damnation.

ACT 6:1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied,

there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their

widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

1TI 5:3 Honour widows that are widows indeed.

1TI 5:4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew

piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable

before God.

1TI 5:5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and

continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

1TI 5:6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

1TI 5:9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old,

having been the wife of one man.

1TI 5:10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if

she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have

relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

1TI 5:11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton

against Christ, they will marry;

1TI 5:12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.

1TI 5:16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them,

and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows

indeed.

JAM 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To

visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself

unspotted from the world.