And it came to pass at the end of two months that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed, by consecrating her to the service of the Lord, Exodus 13:12; Numbers 18:15, as one of the women serving at the door of the Tabernacle, Exodus 38:8; 1 Samuel 2:22; and she knew no man, the vow of her father denied her the married estate, and she had agreed to that vow. And it was a custom in Israel
Verse Judges 11:39. _AND SHE KNEW NO MAN_] She continued a _virgin_ all the days of her life....
CHAPTER 11 JEPHTHAH AND THE AMMONITES _ 1. Jephthah's covenant (Judges 11:1)_ 2. The messages to Ammon (Judges 11:12) 3. Jephthah's vow and victory (Judges 11:29) 4. Jephthah keeps his vow ...
DID WITH HER ACCORDING TO HIS VOW WHICH HE HAD VOWED. He did not offer her as. burnt offering; for Jehovah could not accept _th_. _t_. Therefore Jephthah must have _dedicated_ her to the LORD by. perp...
_who did with her according to his vow_ The language is marked by a fine reserve, but the plain sense of it is that Jephthah offered the tragic sacrifice. Early Jewish interpretation took it to mean t...
IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF TWO MONTHS— When Jephthah returned victorious, he was met by his daughter, who accordingly became the object of his vow, and therefore, as we understand it, being in ever...
_Jephthah Victory Judges 11:32-40_ 32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands. 33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till t...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF TWO MONTHS, THAT SHE RETURNED UNTO HER FATHER, WHO DID WITH HER ACCORDING TO HIS VOW WHICH HE HAD VOWED: AND SHE KNEW NO MAN. AND IT WAS A CUSTOM IN ISRAEL,_ She re...
JEPHTHAH'S VICTORY OVER THE AMMONITES. HIS RASH VOW 1-11. The Choice of Jephthah....
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 V1 Jephthah, a man from Gilead’s family, was a brave soldier. Gilead was his father. V2 His mother was a woman who sold her body for sex. Gilead’...
WHO DID WITH HER ACCORDING TO HIS VOW. — In this significant euphemism the narrator drops the veil — as though with a shudder — over the terrible sacrifice. Of course, “did with her according to his v...
וַ יְהִ֞י מִ קֵּ֣ץ ׀ שְׁנַ֣יִם חֳדָשִׁ֗ים וַ
THE TERRIBLE VOW Judges 11:12 AT every stage of their history the Hebrews were capable of producing men of passionate religiousness. And this appears as a distinction of the group of nations to which...
A SHADOWED VICTORY Judges 11:29 All the nations around were accustomed to offer those dearest to them in sacrifice to their cruel national deities. This was pre-eminently the case with the neighborin...
At last deliverance came through Jephthah, whose history is full of interest. He was the son of a harlot and had been thrust out from his inheritance by the legitimate sons of his father. Evidently th...
With God's help, the Ammonites were subdued with a great slaughter. Jephthah's daughter, who was his only child, was the first to come out of his house to greet him and celebrate his victory with danc...
Father. Her fortitude is commended by St. Ambrose (Off. iii. 12,) as more worthy of admiration than that of the two Pythagorean friends, one of whom, being sentenced to die, procured the other to stan...
Various have been the opinions of pious men, on the subject of Jephthah's vow, and the event of it. But as the Holy Ghost hath not thought proper to make the subject clear, it should seem that it is t...
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, 11, AND 12. After Gideon's death we see the results of this distance from God in the internal struggles which took place between the children of Israel...
AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF TWO MONTHS SHE RETURNED TO HER FATHER,.... For the request she made was not a pretence to make her escape out of his hands; but having done what she proposed to do, a...
And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her [according] to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, Ver. 3...
_Did with her_ That Jephthah's daughter was not sacrificed, but only devoted to perpetual virginity, appears, 1st, From Judges 11:37, where we read that she bewailed, not her death, which had been the...
1 The Couenant betweene Iephthah and the Gileadites, that hee should be their head. 12 The treaty of peace betweene him and the Ammonites is in vaine. 29 Iephthahs vow. 32 His conquest of the Ammon...
CUSTOM: Or, ordinance...
29-40 Several important lessons are to be learned from Jephthah's vow. 1. There may be remainders of distrust and doubting, even in the hearts of true and great believers. 2. Our vows to God should n...
QUEST. What was it which Jephthah vowed and performed concerning his daughter? ANSW. Many, especially of modern writers, conceive that Jephthah's daughter was not sacrificed, but only devoted to perpe...
Judges 11:39 end H7093 two H8147 months H2320 returned H7725 (H8799) father H1 carried H6213 (H8799) vow...
Judges 11:39 a ‘And so it was that at the end of two months she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. And she had not known man.' Obedient to her calling a...
CONTENTS: Jeptha's awful vow and the victory over the Ammorites. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Jeptha, his daughter. CONCLUSION: A Christian in the hands of the Spirit is assured of success in the u...
Judges 11:1. _Jephthah son of a harlot._ The Hebrew is the same as in Joshua 2:1. The rabbins mostly read here, as Joshua 2., son of a hostess. Judges 11:3. Vain men,
_I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back._ RETREAT IMPOSSIBLE I. what we have done. “I have opened my mouth unto the Lord_._” 1. We have opened our mouths before the Lord, first,...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 11:39 WHO DID WITH HER ACCORDING TO HIS VOW. Most likely this means Jephthah literally sacrificed his daughter as a burnt offering. Another interpretation is that Jephthah dedica...
_JEPHTHAH’S VOW_ (Judges 11:30; Judges 11:34) CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 11:30. VOWED A VOW UNTO THE LORD.] He looked entirely to Jehovah for victory ...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 11:29 THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH, as upon Othniel, upon Gideon, and upon Samson (Judges 3:16; Judges 6:34;...
He was a mighty man of valour, he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and the wife's sons when they grew up, they threw Jephthah out, and they said, Yo...
1 Samuel 1:11; 1 Samuel 1:22; 1 Samuel 1:24; 1 Samuel 1:28; 1 Samuel 2:
Did with her — Jephthah's daughter was not sacrificed, but only devoted to perpetual virginity. This appears, From Judges 11:37, where we read, that she bewailed not her death, which had been the chie...
How could God allow Jephthah to offer his daughter up as a burnt offering? PROBLEM: Just before Jephthah went into battle against the people of Ammon, he made a vow to the Lord. The vow he made was th...