; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. Thus, even without changing the conjunction, the wording of the vow can technically mean that she was completely devoted to God. "- New American Standard Version (1995)And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.- American Standard Version (1901)Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate.- Basic English BibleAnd she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go and descend to the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.- Darby BibleAnd she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: Let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows. Not only did Jephthah know it was wrong, the people of Gilead would also have abhorred the practice and were commanded to kill one who did it (Leviticus 20:2-5)! BibliographyTrapp, John. "- World English BibleAnd she saith unto her father, `Let this thing be done to me; desist from me two months, and I go on, and have gone down on the hills, and I weep for my virginity -- I and my friends. Chapter 11. He had twelve sons; but when he wishes to perform his vow the Koreish interfere, and Abd Almuttalib, at the bidding of a priestess, gives one hundred camels as a ransom (Weil, Mohammed, p. 8). Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew Scripture. So Bullinger concludes Jephthah vowed to dedicate to God whoever came out to meet him, or if it were an animal, to offer it as a burnt offering. BibliographyHaydock, George Leo. 36And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon. Clearly, the custom described in the next verse, of the yearly celebration of Jephthah’s daughter. John Trapp Complete Commentary. This plain and positive statement throws us back for the meaning of Jephthah’s act to Judges 11:31, where the language of his vow is carefully recorded. This view is strengthened both by the significant clause, "she knew no man," being doomed to live unmarried-a disappointment particularly severe to a Hebrew damsel-and by the annual custom, which was thenceforth adopted by her female associates, of celebrating her deed of public devotion. (Haydock) --- Whatever we may think of Jephte, "we cannot sufficiently admire the dutiful behaviour, and amiable simplicity of the daughter, who voluntarily submitted to her parent's will, and exhorted him to do as he had vowed. She knew no man, to wit, carnally; she, died a virgin. (2) There are decisive Scriptural analogies to Jephthah’s vow, taken in its most literal sense—Abraham (Genesis 23:3), Saul (1 Samuel 14:44), &c. (See on Judges 11:31.) The virgin only deplores, with pious resignation, that she cannot be the happy mother of the Messias. She gave up—sacrificed—the one thing that they prized most highly: their ability to have children. It is remarked by those who believe that she was not slain, that this observation would be very unnecessary in the contrary opinion. 2. It literally means "that which goes up," and implies total consumption (as one "consumed in his work") or complete surrender. But for the first, there may be a fair reason given, That she could not with honour bewail her death, which she had so generously and cheerfully accepted of, because it was attended with and occasioned by the public good, and her father’s honour and happiness, Jude 11:36, and was a kind of martyrdom; and moreover, an act of religion, the payment of a vow, which ought to be done cheerfully; but only bewailed the circumstance of her death, that it was in some sort accursed and opprobrious; she having had no husband to take away her reproach, as they speak, Isaiah 4:1, and leaving no posterity to her father’s comfort, and the increase of God’s people. Ver. This is conclusive. Whedon's Commentary on the Bible. 39. But if, as we have shown above, and as most modern scholars are constrained to admit, he contemplated a human sacrifice, and if, instead of offering her as a burnt offering, he devoted her to a life of celibacy, then plainly he did NOT according to his vow which he had vowed, but contrary to it; and the mere addition, she knew no man, would be a most inexplicably strange way of informing us that Jephthah failed to keep his word. This appears, 1. This does not mean that vows are bad – they can be good. "Commentary on Judges 11:39". Compare all. 1. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/judges-11.html. Abd Almuttalib, grandfather of Mohammed, vows to kill his son Abd Allah if God will give him ten sons. If she was sacrificed, they affirm, the record would have been: “He did to her his vow which he had vowed, and offered her for a burnt offering.” Such an addition, we reply, was not necessary, and, after the full and careful statement of his vow in Judges 11:31, would have been superfluous. 1865-1868. Nothing more, nothing less. 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. BibliographyBenson, Joseph. Besides, this opinion seems liable to weighty objections: 1. K.J.V. Now though Jephthah had no such power over his daughter, as to oblige her to perpetual virginity, nor did his vow bind him to it; for persons devoted to the Lord were not obliged to abstain from marriage, nor have we any instances of a monastic life in those times, nor among the Jews at any time; yet as he did something not right, which he thought his vow obliged him to, one would be rather tempted to think, in charity to him, that of the two evils he did the least; for if she was put to death, it must be done either by the magistrates, or by the priests, or by Jephthah himself; neither of which is probable: and she knew no man; never married, but lived and died a virgin: "and it was a custom in Israel"; the Targum adds,"that a man might not offer his son or his daughter for a burnt offering, as Jephthah the Gileadite did, and did not consult Phinehas the priest; for had he consulted Phinehas the priest, he would have redeemed her with a price;'so Jarchi, according to Leviticus 27:4 but each stood upon their honour, as the Jews sayF15; Jephthah being a king would not go to Phinehas, and Phinehas being an high priest; and the son of an high priest, would not go to a plebeian; and so, between them both, the maiden was lost: but the custom refers to what follows. "Commentary on Judges 11:39". "Commentary on Judges 11:39". Her fortitude is commended by St. Ambrose (Off. Amplified® But how or what did he do with her? To die to sin, to resign the pomps of a licentious world, to renounce those pleasures and incentives to vice, which are inconsistent with a clean heart, is a sacrifice truly meritorious, and acceptable to God; it is a sacrifice which was solemnly begun at the font of baptism." to meet him at his return; which plainly argues a design to meet him, purposely to congratulate his return; this phrase of going to meet a person coming being very oft used in Scripture, and constantly of one person meeting another, as Genesis 14:17 Genesis 17:2 24:17, &c., and never of any brute creature. These were times of great and general ignorance and corruption of religion, wherein the Israelites had apostatized from God, and learnt and followed the practices and worships of the heathen nations, Jude 10:6, whereof this was one, to offer up human sacrifices to Moloch; and although they seem now to have repented and forsaken their idols, Jude 10:16, yet they seem still to have retained part of the old leaven, and this among the rest, that they might offer human sacrifices, not to Moloch, as they had done, but unto the Lord. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". Ecclesiastes 5:1-2 and 5:4-6 speak of the danger of making foolish vows. Judges 11 is often brought up in polemic attacks on the Bible. This no one will pretend. Such a vow was provided for in Lev 27. Certainly he did not offer her in sacrifice. Which best represents the problem with the comment? But the sacrifice could not have been offered at Shiloh, not only because Jephthah was not likely to go to Shiloh, having a bitter feud with the Ephraimites, within whose territory it lay, but because no Levitical priest would have lent his services to put a human victim upon the altar of God; and if Jephthah himself had immolated her at his own home, he would have incurred the triple guilt of the impious assumption of the priestly office, of offering at an unaccepted place, and presenting a sacrifice abhorrent to the law and character of God.
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