Judges 11:40 meaning and explanation
that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
Judges 11:40, Berean Standard Bible
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This closing verse describes an annual custom that grew out of the tragedy just told. Jephthah, a judge on whom the Spirit of the LORD had come, vowed to offer as a burnt offering whatever came out of his house to meet him, and his only daughter came out first.
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