(16:31), where Baal was thought to be supreme, and a widow was the weakest, most vulnerable member of society in the biblical world! However paradoxical God’s directive may have seemed, Elijah obeys. As Elijah arrives at the city gate of Zarephath, he finds a widow gathering sticks (17:10). Elijah must determine by a test of faith if she is the one God had commanded to feed him (v. 9). “And he called to her and said, ‘Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.’ And as she was going