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Jephthah's Vow: (Judges 11:30,31) After a crushing defeat of the Ammonites, Jephthah
returned to his own house, and the first to welcome him was his own
daughter. This was a terrible blow to the victor, and in his despair
he cried out, "Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low. I
have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and cannot go back." With
singular nobleness of spirit she answered, "Do to me according to
that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth." She only asked two
months to bewail her maidenhood with her companions upon the
mountains. She utters no reproach against her father's rashness, and
is content to yield her life since her father has returned a
conqueror. But was it so? Did Jephthah offer up his daughter as a
"burnt-offering"? This question has been much debated, and there are
many able commentators who argue that such a sacrifice was actually
offered. We are constrained, however, by a consideration of
Jephthah's known piety as a true worshipper of Jehovah, his evident
acquaintance with the law of Moses, to which such sacrifices were
abhorrent
(Leviticus 18:21; 20:2-5; Deuteronomy 12:31) and the place he holds in the
roll of the heroes of the faith in the Epistle to the Hebrews
(He 11:32) to conclude that she was only doomed to a life of
perpetual celibacy.
