Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows and let their men be put to death let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.There needs to be consideration of the fact that many orphaned children or fatherless children need to grow up in loving Christian homes. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey they have devoured souls they have taken the treasure and precious things they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them. 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! Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
See verse in context And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.īut I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land
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. See verse in context And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
See verse in context 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. 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. Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.īut the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive and let thy widows trust in me. Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep. Their priests fell by the sword and their widows made no lamentation.Ī father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation. Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 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. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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