Widow

How Nave’s arranged it

• Vows of, bindingNumbers 30:9
• When they are daughters of priests, they are to be supported by their fathersLeviticus 22:13
• Priests forbidden to marryLeviticus 21:14
• Marriage of, authorizedRomans 7:31 Corinthians 7:39
• Widows' dower
• See Dowry
• UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TOExodus 22:22–24Deuteronomy 10:18Deuteronomy 14:28Deuteronomy 14:29Deuteronomy 16:11–14Deuteronomy 24:17Deuteronomy 24:19–21Deuteronomy 25:5–10Deuteronomy 27:19Job 22:5Job 22:9Job 24:3Job 24:21Job 29:13Job 31:16Job 31:22Psalms 68:5Psalms 94:6Psalms 146:9Proverbs 15:25
• INSTANCES OF
• NaomiRuth 1:3
• RuthRuth 1Ruth 2Ruth 3Ruth 4
• The widow of Zarephath, who sustained Elijah during a famine1 Kings 17
• The woman whose sons Elisha saved from being sold for debt2 Kings 4:1–7

The passages, in Bible order (56)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 22:22–24

   You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 22:22–241 voice

   “Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child - It is remarkable that offenses against this law are not left to the discretion of the judges to be punished; God reserves the punishment to himself, and by this he strongly shows his abhorrence of the crime.

   Everything gathered on Exodus 22:22–24→

   Verse page →Original language →

2. Leviticus 21:14

   He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 21:141 voice

   “The reason of this was to put a difference between him and other priests in this matter; and (as some suggest) that he might be a type of Christ, to whom the church was to be presented a chaste virgin, 2 Cor. xi. Christ must have our first love, our pure love, our entire love; thus the virgins love thee ( Cant. i. 3 ), and such only are fit to follow the Lamb, Rev. xiv.

   Everything gathered on Leviticus 21:14→

   Verse page →Original language →

3. Leviticus 22:13

   But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.

   Verse page →Original language →

4. Numbers 30:9

   Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.

   Verse page →Original language →

5. Deuteronomy 10:18

   He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:181 voice

   “Moses here resumes his address, and having made a passing allusion to the principal events in their history, concludes by exhorting them to fear the Lord and serve Him faithfully.

   Everything gathered on Deuteronomy 10:18→

   Verse page →Original language →

6. Deuteronomy 14:28

   At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:282 voices

   “At the end of three years - That is, in the third year, as it is, expressed, chap. xxvi, 12. The same year - This is added to shew that he speaks of the third year, and not of the fourth year, as some might conjecture from the phrase, at the end of three years.

   “Compare the marginal references. The tithe thus directed in the third year to be dispensed in charity at home, was not paid in addition to that in other years bestowed on the sacred meals, but was substituted for it. The three years would count from the sabbatical year (see the next chapter), in which year there would of course be neither payment of tithe nor celebration of the feasts at the sanctuary. In the third year and sixth year of the septennial cycle the feasts would be superseded by the private hospitality enjoined in these verses.

   Everything gathered on Deuteronomy 14:28→

   Verse page →Original language →

7. Deuteronomy 14:29

   Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

   Verse page →Original language →

8. Deuteronomy 16:11–14

   and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 16:11–141 voice

   “Thou shalt rejoice - The offerings of the Israelites were to be eaten with festivity, communicated to their friends with liberality, and bestowed on the poor with great generosity, that they might partake with them in these repasts with joy before the Lord. To answer these views it was necessary to eat the flesh while it was fresh, as in that climate putrefaction soon took place; therefore they were commanded to let nothing remain until the morning, Deu 16:

   Everything gathered on Deuteronomy 16:11–14→

   Verse page →Original language →

9. Deuteronomy 24:17

   Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

   Verse page →Original language →

10. Deuteronomy 24:19–21

    If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:19–212 voices

    “When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field--The grain, pulled up by the roots or cut down with a sickle, was laid in loose sheaves; the fruit of the olive was obtained by striking the branches with long poles; and the grape clusters, severed by a hook, were gathered in the hands of the vintager. Here is a beneficent provision for the poor.

    “When thou cuttest down thine harvest - This is an addition to the law, Lev 19:9; Lev 23:22. The corners of the field, the gleanings, and the forgotten sheaf, were all the property of the poor. This the Hebrews extended to any part of the fruit or produce of a field, which had been forgotten in the time of general ingathering, as appears from the concluding verses of this chapter.

    Everything gathered on Deuteronomy 24:19–21→

    Verse page →Original language →

11. Deuteronomy 25:5–10

    When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 25:5–102 voices

    “But the Mosaic law rendered the custom obligatory (Mt 22:25) on younger brothers, or the nearest kinsman, to marry the widow (Ru 4:4), by associating the natural desire of perpetuating a brother's name with the preservation of property in the Hebrew families and tribes.

    “One - Any of them, for the words are general, and the reason of the law was to keep up the distinction of tribes and families, that so the Messiah might be discovered by the family from which he was appointed to proceed; and also of inheritances, which were divided among all the brethren, the first-born having only a double portion.

    Everything gathered on Deuteronomy 25:5–10→

    Verse page →Original language →

12. Deuteronomy 27:19

    ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:191 voice

    “Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow,.... Who have none to assist them, and take their part, and therefore judges may be tempted to do an unjust thing; but God is the patron of them, and takes notice of every injury done them, and is the avenger of all such: and all the people shall say Amen; See Gill on Deu 27:15; See Gill on Deu 27:16.

    Everything gathered on Deuteronomy 27:19→

    Verse page →Original language →

13. Ruth 1:1

    In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.

    ›Commentary on Ruth 1:12 voices

    “Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled,.... So that it appears that this history is of time and things after the affair of Micah, and of the concubine of the Levite, and of the war between Israel and Benjamin; for in those times there was no king nor judge in Israel; but to what time of the judges, and which government of theirs it belongs to, is not agreed on.

    “In the days when the Judges ruled - “Judged.” This note of time, like that in Rth 4:7; Jdg 18:1; Jdg 17:6, indicates that this Book was written after the rule of the judges had ceased. The genealogy Rth 4:17-22 points to the time of David as the earliest when the Book of Ruth could have been written. A famine - Caused probably by one of the hostile invasions recorded in the Book of Judges.

    Everything gathered on Ruth 1:1→

    Verse page →Original language →

14. Ruth 1:3

    Then Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,

    Verse page →Original language →

15. Ruth 2:1

    Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

    ›Commentary on Ruth 2:12 voices

    “A kinsman - More literally “an acquaintance”; here (and in the feminine, Rth 3:2) denoting the person with whom one is intimately acquainted, one’s near relation. The next kinsman of Rth 2:20, etc. גאל gā'al, is a wholly different word. Boaz - Commonly taken to mean, “strength is in him” (compare 1Ki 7:21).

    “The Chaldee reads it, mighty in the law. If he was both, it was a most rare and excellent conjunction, to be mighty in wealth and mighty in the scriptures too; those that are so are mighty indeed.

    Everything gathered on Ruth 2:1→

    Verse page →Original language →

16. Ruth 3:1

    One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?

    ›Commentary on Ruth 3:11 voice

    “Shall I not seek rest for thee - That is, Shall I not endeavor to procure thee a proper husband? See Rth 1:9, and the observations at the end of that chapter.

    Everything gathered on Ruth 3:1→

    Verse page →Original language →