Luke 7:12
Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only born son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
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Luke 7:12
Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only born son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
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Genesis 22:2
He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
Judges 11:34
Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
2 Samuel 12:15
Then Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
2 Samuel 12:16
David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground.
Psalms 50:15
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Psalms 107:19
Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses.
Proverbs 4:3
For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
Mark 5:23
and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live.”
Mark 7:25
For a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
Mark 7:27
But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
Luke 15:25
“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
John 11:3
The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
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Genesis 35:19
Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).
Matthew 27:60
and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock. Then he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.
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Genesis 38:19
She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
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Genesis 44:21
You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’
Genesis 44:22
We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
Genesis 44:27
Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Genesis 44:28
One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.
Genesis 44:29
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
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Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 14:29
The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Deuteronomy 16:11
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16:14
You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.
Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Job 31:16
“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 94:6
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
Matthew 23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
1 Timothy 5:3
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5:9
Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
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2 Samuel 14:7
Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”
1 Kings 17:10
So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”
1 Kings 17:12
She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
1 Kings 17:18
She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”
1 Kings 17:23
Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”
2 Kings 4:16
He said, “At this season next year, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”
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2 Kings 16:20
Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 21:26
He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.
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Nehemiah 2:5
I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”
Ecclesiastes 7:4
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
Isaiah 53:4
Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
Matthew 8:14
When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.
Matthew 8:15
He touched her hand, and the fever left her. So she got up and served him.
Matthew 8:16
When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,
Mark 5:38
He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.
Mark 5:39
When he had entered in, he said to them, “Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”
Mark 5:40
They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.
Mark 5:41
Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!”
Mark 5:42
Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.
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Job 1:18
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
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Job 1:19
and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”
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Job 30:24
“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Matthew 9:33
When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”
Mark 1:41
Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I want to. Be made clean.”
Mark 6:34
Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.
Luke 7:22
Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
Luke 8:41
Behold, a man named Jairus came. He was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet and begged him to come into his house,
Luke 13:11
Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over and could in no way straighten herself up.
Luke 17:16
He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.
John 11:30
Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
1 Corinthians 15:20
But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.
Hebrews 2:17
Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
Hebrews 4:15
For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
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Ruth 1:20
She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
Isaiah 22:12
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
Isaiah 47:9
But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day: the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
Isaiah 51:18
There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons whom she has brought up.
Isaiah 51:19
These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 9:10
I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
Jeremiah 9:17
Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
Jeremiah 9:18
Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah 9:19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”
Jeremiah 9:20
Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.
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Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
Isaiah 66:13
As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
Matthew 10:36
A man’s foes will be those of his own household.
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Isaiah 49:21
Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’ ”
Jeremiah 9:21
For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 9:22
Speak, “Yahweh says, “ ‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’ ”
Lamentations 1:2
She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.
Lamentations 1:16
“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
Ezekiel 7:16
But of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.
Ezekiel 7:17
All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water.
Ezekiel 7:18
They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
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Matthew 21:1
When they came near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
Mark 11:1
When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples
Luke 18:35
As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging.
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
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Matthew 22:25
Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.
Matthew 22:26
In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.
Matthew 22:27
After them all, the woman died.
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Matthew 8:28
When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.
Matthew 15:22
Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”
Mark 7:26
Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.
Mark 9:21
He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has been happening to him?” He said, “From childhood.
Mark 9:22
Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
Luke 7:2
A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.
Luke 7:3
When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant.
John 4:46
Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
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Luke 2:36
There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
Luke 2:38
Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.
Luke 2:39
When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.
Luke 2:40
The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
Luke 6:20
He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for God’s Kingdom is yours.
Luke 21:1
He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
Luke 21:2
He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.
Luke 21:3
He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,
Luke 21:4
for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”
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John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
John 1:18
No one has seen God at any time. The only born Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:18
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.
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1 Samuel 28:3
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had sent away those who had familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land.
Nehemiah 2:2
The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.
Nehemiah 2:3
I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”
Nehemiah 2:4
Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Luke 4:38
He rose up from the synagogue and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him to help her.
Luke 7:10
Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been sick was well.
Luke 8:52
All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”
John 11:32
Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”
John 11:33
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled,
John 11:34
and said, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
John 11:35
Jesus wept.
John 11:44
He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”
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Acts 5:9
But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
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Acts 5:10
She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
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1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
1 Timothy 5:5
Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
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