³⁷ and was a widow for eighty-four years.^[a] She did not leave the temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.^(A)

²⁶ Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them except a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.^(A)

¹² Just as he neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow.^(A) A large crowd from the town was also with her.

² He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins.^[a](A)