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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:39

And she knew no man - She continued a virgin all the days of her life. read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:40

To lament the daughter of Jephthah - I am satisfied that this is not a correct translation of the original יפתח לבת לתנות lethannoth lebath yiphtach . Houbigant translates the whole verse thus: Sed iste mos apud Israel invaluit, ut virgines Israel, temporibus diversis, irent ad filiam Jepthe-ut eam quotannis dies quatuor consolarentur ; "But this custom prevailed in Israel that the virgins of Israel went at different times, four days in the year, to the daughter of Jephthah,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:29

Then the Spirit of the Lord ... - This was the sanctification of Jephthah for his office of Judge and savior of God’s people Israel. Compare Judges 6:34; Judges 13:25. The declaration is one of the distinctive marks which stamp this history as a divine history.The geography is rather obscure, but the sense seems to be that Jephthah first raised all the inhabitants of Mount Gilead; then he crossed the Jabbok into Manasseh, and raised them; then he returned at the head of his new forces to his... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:31

The words of this verse prove conclusively that Jephthah intended his vow to apply to human beings, not animals: for only one of his household could be expected to come forth from the door of his house to meet him. They also preclude any other meaning than that Jephthah contemplated a human sacrifice. This need not, however, surprise us, when we recollect his Syrian birth and long residence in a Syrian city, where such fierce rites were probably common. The Syrians and Phoenicians were... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:33

As in the conflicts with the Moabites, Canaanites, and Midianites Judges 3:0; Judges 4:0; Judges 7:0, the battle was on Israelite territory, in self-defense, not in aggressive warfare.The plain of the vineyards - Rather, “Abel-Ceramim” (compare Abel-Meholah), identified with an “Abel” situated among vineyards, 7 miles from Robbah. “Minnith” is “Maanith,” 4 miles from Heshbon, on the road to Rab-bah. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:34

His daughter came out to meet him - The precise phrase of his vow Judges 11:31. She was his “only child,” a term of special endearment (see Jeremiah 6:26; Zechariah 12:10). The same word is used of Isaac Genesis 22:2, Genesis 22:12, Genesis 22:16. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:35

Jephthah was right in not being deterred from keeping his vow by the loss and sorrow to himself (compare the marginal references), just as Abraham was right in not withholding his son, his only son, from God, when commanded to offer him up as a burnt-offering. But Jephthah was wholly wrong in that conception of the character of God which led to his making the rash vow. And he would have done right not to slay his child, though the guilt of making and of breaking such a vow would have remained.... read more

Albert Barnes

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:39

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:40

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:29

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:31

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:33

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:34

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:35

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:36

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:37

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:40

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