Fondare 30 Risultati per: Widows
and my anger will blaze and I will kill you with the sword, and your own wives will be widows and your own children orphans. (Exodus 22, 23)
When David reached his house at Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines whom he had left to keep the palace and put them under guard. He provided for them but had no relations with them. So they were secluded until the day of their death and lived like widows. (2 Samuel 20, 3)
I gave the third tithe to the orphans and widows and to the pagan converts who had joined the Israelites. I gave them every three years and we ate according to the rules which had been laid down on this matter in the Law of Moses, and according to the recommendations made by Deborah, my father's mother, for my father had left me an orphan. (Tobit 1, 8)
You have sent widows away empty-handed and crushed the arms of orphans. (Job 22, 9)
The plague will bury those who survive, and their widows will not mourn for them. (Job 27, 15)
Father of orphans and protector of widows - such is our God in his holy dwelling. (Psalms 68, 6)
As their priests fell by the sword, no lament was heard from their widows. (Psalms 78, 64)
The High Priest explained that there were some deposits belonging to widows and orphans. (2 Maccabees 3, 10)
After the sabbath, they divided part of the booty among those who had been tortured, the widows and the orphans; and they divided the rest among themselves and their men. (2 Maccabees 8, 28)
Then, in an encounter with the army of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed more than twenty thousand men, and took control of the fortified cities. They divided the abundant plunder into equal shares among themselves, those who had been tortured, the orphans, the widows and the aged. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
The Lord, therefore, does not spare their young men nor have compassion on their orphans and widows. For everyone has become evil and ungodly; every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this his anger does not subside, his hand is poised to strike. (Isaiah 9, 16)
Woe to those who rob the poor of their rights and deprive the helpless of justice! They prey on widows and plunder the orphans. (Isaiah 10, 2)
