![]() Elijah reassured her, saying, “The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.” (1 Kings 17:14) ![]() She told him that she only had a handful of flour and a small amount of oil. When Elijah arrived and found the woman, he requested water and bread. ![]() He told Elijah that He had directed a widow there to supply him with food. In the case of the widow at Zarephath, the Lord orchestrated a divine appointment with the Prophet Elijah during a drought. Traditional Hanukkah Menorahs (Hanukkah Lamps) with olive oil candles in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.Īs well, the Bible tells us that oil was miraculously extended in the case of the widow at Zarephath (1 Kings) and the wife of a prophet (2 Kings). God honored the efforts of the Maccabees to restore the Temple, taking what little oil they had and making it last an impossibly long time. Part of the wonder of Hanukkah is that this small, untrained force was able to defeat the most powerful army on earth at that time.Īnother is that when the Maccabees rededicated the Temple, the one-day supply of consecrated oil used to relight the Menorah miraculously continued to burn the entire eight days necessary to produce additional consecrated oil. We celebrate Hanukkah in remembrance of the historic victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Greek Emperor Antiochus IV and those who desecrated the Temple, making it into a pagan shrine. Last night the hanukkiah (Hanukkah menorah) glowed with all eight lights representing the miracle of a single vial of oil lasting a full eight days. “And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword whose weakness was turned to strength and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies.” (Hebrews 11:32–34) A Hanukkah menorah (hanukkiah) with all eight candles lit for the eighth night of Hanukkah.
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