Quotes about Widow

When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.

“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.

He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.

Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,

“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”

So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”

Then he cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, by causing her son to die?”

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.

The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—