Judges 11:30-40 – And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will give the Ammonites
into my hand, then whatever comes out from the doors
of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.” So Jephthah crossed
over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the Lord gave them into his hand. And he struck them
from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as
Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the
people of Israel. Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out
to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child;
besides her he had neither son nor daughter. And as soon as he saw
her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very
low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my
mouth to the Lord, and I cannot take back my vow.” And she said to him,
“My father, you have opened your mouth to the Lord; do to me according to what has gone out
of your mouth, now that the Lord has avenged you on your enemies, on the
Ammonites.” So she said to her father, “Let this
thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go up and down on
the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions.” So he said, “Go.”
Then he sent her away for two months, and she departed, she and her companions,
and wept for her virginity on the mountains. And at the end of two
months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow that
he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel that the daughters of
Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four
days in the year.
Ecclesiastes
5:4 – When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in
fools. Pay what you vow.
Zechariah 12:10 – “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly
over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
Application:
- · In Scripture the fool is not one who cannot learn, but one who refuses to learn.
- · It was customary for women to greet armies returning victoriously from battle with dancing.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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