Bible Encyclopedia: Widows: The Wicked: Make a Prey of

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Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and ...
... who under pretence of long prayers devoured widows' houses, as ... the land of its defence,
and make them naked ... the sin of association with the wicked, and being so ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section v scriptures showing the.htm

Psalm CXXXII.
... My covenant; so that here thou must make a slight ... in the protection of their husbands:
widows seem desolate ... I will avenge her." [5614] If the wicked judge heard ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm cxxxii.htm

Of Civil Government.
... of dignity could cloak folly, or cowardice, or cruelty, or wicked or flagitious ... do
violence to the cause of the humble, to make widows a prey, and plunder ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 20 of civil government.htm

The Last Season
... O Father of the fatherless and Judge of widows, nourish, keep ... who has gifts and parts,
and who can make shift to ... many been led away by the error of the wicked? ...
//christianbookshelf.org/flavel/on keeping the heart/xii the last season.htm

Letter cxxv. To Rusticus.
... their maiden sisters and unite themselves to strange widows. ... of anyone or suppose
that you make yourself better ... only be that we may "practise wicked works with ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cxxv to rusticus.htm

The Death of the Christian
... But I wish to make an observation concerning death, and ... When death comes to a wicked
man, he finds him ... persons could break through them, and if widows were not ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the death of the christian.htm

Christian Behavior
... covenant of grace, without strength; enemies in their minds by wicked works, and ...
if a master or mistress should take this opportunity to make a prey of their ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/christian behavior.htm

Protest and Agony. (I, iv. 10, 19, vi. 11, xi. 18-xii. 6, xv. 10 ...
... thee I shall from the power of the wicked, 21 From ... shall none lament, 6b Nor gash
nor make themselves bald ... Let their wives be widows and childless And their men ...
//christianbookshelf.org/smith/jeremiah/1 protest and agony i.htm

The Fifth Book
... even the priests of the Lord make no resistance ... for this the sensitive ears of the
wicked cannot bear ... Meanwhile the poor are being robbed, widows groan, orphans ...
//christianbookshelf.org/salvian/on the government of god/the fifth book.htm

How the Bishop is to Treat the Innocent, the Guilty, and the ...
... regardless of doing justice to the widows," [2673] those ... possible, therefore, let
the bishop make the offence ... Judah has done all these wicked abominations in a ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec iii how the bishop is.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 10:2
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!
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Matthew 23:14
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater damnation.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Subtopics

Widows

Widows Remarrying

Widows were Clothed in Mourning After the Decease of Husbands

Widows were Frequently Oppressed and Persecuted

Widows were Released from all Obligation to Former Husbands

Widows were Under the Special Protection of God

Widows: A Desolate Condition

Widows: A Type of Zion in Affliction

Widows: Allowed to Marry Again

Widows: Blessings on Those Who Relieve

Widows: Character of True