What Is Feast of the Dedication in the Bible?
Feast
A Jewish feast of eight days that recalls when the Maccabees cleansed the Temple and dedicated it to God again.
Today
The Jews call it Hanukkah, and they light one more candle each night.
Where it appears in the Bible
1 Maccabees 4:52-59; John 10:22
What the Bible says
1 Maccabees 4:52-59
52And they arose before the morning on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month (which is the month of Casleu) in the hundred and forty-eighth year. 53And they offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar of holocausts which they had made. 54According to the time, and according to the day wherein the heathens had defiled it, in the same was it dedicated anew with canticles, and harps, and lutes, and cymbals. 55And all the people fell upon their faces, and adored, and blessed up to heaven, him that had prospered them. 56And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and they offered holocausts with joy, and sacrifices of salvation, and of praise. 57And they adorned the front of the temple with crowns of gold, and escutcheons, and they renewed the gates, and the chambers, and hanged doors upon them. 58And there was exceeding great joy among the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was turned away. 59And Judas, and his brethren, and all the church of Israel decreed, that the day of the dedication of the altar should be kept in its season from year to year for eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu, with joy and gladness.
John 10:22
And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: and it was winter.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: NAB note on John 10:22; 1 Maccabees 4:59