Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

21:1-4 The Widow's Offering. The point of this story is that God measures gifts not by their size but on the basis of how much of a sacrifice it was to give them and how sincere and selfless the heart was that gave the gift. offering box. One of the 13 collection chests in the temple, with trumpet-like openings (Mishnah, Shekalim 6.5). The two small copper coins were about one centimeter in diameter.