So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

his second, Kileab the son of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; the third, Absalom the son of Maakah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

The king asked her, “What is troubling you?” She said, “I am a widow; my husband is dead.

When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace and put them in a house under guard. He provided for them but had no sexual relations with them. They were kept in confinement till the day of their death, living as widows.

whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom, with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.

Jeroboam Rebels Against Solomon

Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon’s officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah.

Elijah and the Widow at Zarephath

Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

“Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.”

So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?”

Then he cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?”

The Widow’s Olive Oil

The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”

And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.

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

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

The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.

The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow’s heart sing.

“If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,

but from my youth I reared them as a father would, and from my birth I guided the widow—

A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.

They slay the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow’s boundary stones in place.

Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.