Judges 11:40 Parallel Translations

that for four days every year the girls in Israel would go out to sing the praises of the daughter of Jephthah, the man from Gilead.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

ASV:

that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

BBE:

For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in every year.

DBY:

that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

ERV:

that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

JPS:

that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

WBS:

That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

WEB:

that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

YLT:

from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.

Judges 11:40 Cross References

XREF:

Judges 11:39 At the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her according to the vow which he had made; and she had no relations with a man. Thus it became a custom in Israel,

Judges 12:1 Then the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

11:40 The daughter of Jephthah - It is really astonishing, that the general stream of commentators, should take it for granted, that Jephthah murdered his daughter! But, says Mr. Henry, We do not find any law, usage or custom, in all the Old Testament, which doth in the least intimate, that a single life was any branch or article of religion. And do we find any law, usage or custom there, which doth in the least intimate, that cutting the throat of an only child, was any branch or article of religion? If only a dog had met Jephthah, would he have offered up that for a burnt - offering? No: because God had expressly forbidden this. And had he not expressly forbidden murder? But Mr. Poole thinks the story of Agamemnon's offering up Iphigenia took its rise from this. Probably it did. But then let it be observed, Iphigenia was not murdered. Tradition said, that Diana sent an hind in her stead, and took the maid to live in the woods with her.

MHC:

11:29-40 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 not be as a purchase of the favour we desire, but to express gratitude to him. 3. We need to be very well-advised in making vows, lest we entangle ourselves. 4. What we have solemnly vowed to God, we must perform, if it be possible and lawful, though it be difficult and grievous to us. 5. It well becomes children, obediently and cheerfully to submit to their parents in the Lord. It is hard to say what Jephthah did in performance of his vow; but it is thought that he did not offer his daughter as a burnt-offering. Such a sacrifice would have been an abomination to the Lord; it is supposed she was obliged to remain unmarried, and apart from her family. Concerning this and some other such passages in the sacred history, about which learned men are divided and in doubt, we need not perplex ourselves; what is necessary to our salvation, thanks be to God, is plain enough. If the reader recollects the promise of Christ concerning the teaching of the Holy Spirit, and places himself under this heavenly Teacher, the Holy Ghost will guide to all truth in every passage, so far as it is needful to be understood.

CONC:

Celebrate Commemorate Daughter Daughters Gileadite Jephthah Lament Sorrowing Talk Women Yearly

Celebrate Commemorate Daughter Daughters Israel Jephthah Lament Sorrowing Talk Time Women Yearly Young

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