Judges 11:39 (KJV)
And it came to pass at the endof two monthsthat she returnedunto her fatherwho didwith her according to his vowwhich he had vowedand she knewno manAnd it was a customin Israel
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did with.That Jephthah did not sacrifice his daughter, but consecrated her to the service of God in the tabernacle, in a state of celibacy, will we imagine be evident from the following consideration:--1. Human sacrifices were ever an abomination to Jehovah, of which Jephthah could not be ignorant; and consequently he would neither have made such a vow, nor carried it into execution. 2. We are expressly told (ver. 29) that Jephthah was under the influence of the Spirit of God, which would effectually prevent him from embruing his hands in the blood of his own child. 3. He had it in his power to redeem his daughter, (Le 27:4;) and surely his only child must have been of more value than thirty shekles. 4. Besides, who was to perform the horrid rite? Not Jephthah himself, who was no priest, and in whom it would have been most unnatural and inhuman; and the priests would certainly have dissuaded him from it. 5. The sacred historian informs us, that she bewailed her virginity, that she knew no man, and that the Israelitish women went yearly to comfort or lament with her. Jud 11:31 Le 27:28 Le 27:29 De 12:31 Isa 66:3
to his vow. 1Sa 1:11 1Sa 1:22 1Sa 1:24 1Sa 1:28 1Sa 2:18
custom. or, ordinance.
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