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Letter "W" » widow
«And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.»
«And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.»
«And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; / Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: / And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.»
«And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; / And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.»
«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.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
adulterer, adulterers, come near, fatherless, hireling, hirelings, oppress, sorcerer, sorcerers, The Stranger, widow
«And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu; / When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD, / And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years? / Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying, / Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? / And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? / Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain? / And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying, / Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: / 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.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Darius, execute, fasted, fatherless, fifth, fourth-year, house of God, inhabited, King Darius, mourned, ninth, oppress, Plain Words, Poor brother, separating, seventh, The House of God, widow, Zechariah
«At thirty-three . . . Lilian Aldwinkle appealed to all the instinctive bigamist in one. She was eighteen in the attics and widow Dido on the floors below.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
appealed, bigamist, bigamists, Dido, eighteen, floors, instinctive, thirty-three, widow
«And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.»
«And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, / Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.»
«'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?»
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