Judges 11:40

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Each year the daughters of Israel would go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

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  • Judg 5:11 : 11 The voices of the archers at the watering places recount the righteous acts of the Lord, the righteous acts of His villagers in Israel. Then the people of the Lord went down to the city gates.
  • 1 Kgs 9:25 : 25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense before the LORD with them, and so he fulfilled the temple obligations.

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  • Judg 11:34-39
    6 verses
    84%

    34 When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, there was his daughter, coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing. She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

    35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, 'Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me to my knees and made me miserable, for I have made a vow to the Lord that I cannot break.'

    36 She said to him, 'My father, you have given your word to the Lord. Do to me just as you promised, since the Lord has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.'

    37 She also said to her father, 'Let me do this one thing: Allow me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends because I will never marry.'

    38 He said, 'Go,' and he sent her away for two months. She and her friends went to the hills and wept because she would never marry.

    39 After the two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin. From this, it became a custom in Israel

  • Judg 12:7
    72%

    7 Jephthah judged Israel for six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in the towns of Gilead.

  • Judg 11:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, 'The Lord is our witness; we will certainly do as you say.'

    11 So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their head and commander. Jephthah repeated all his words before the Lord in Mizpah.

  • Judg 11:28-32
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    70%

    28 But the king of the Ammonites would not listen to the message Jephthah sent to him.

    29 Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and he went on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites.

    30 And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord: 'If you give the Ammonites into my hands,

    31 whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites will belong to the Lord, and I will offer it as a burnt offering.'

    32 Then Jephthah crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into his hands.

  • Judg 11:1-6
    6 verses
    70%

    1 Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was his father.

    2 Gilead's wife also bore him sons, and when they grew up, they drove Jephthah away, saying, 'You will have no inheritance in our father's house because you are the son of another woman.'

    3 So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob. Men who were worthless gathered around Jephthah and went out with him.

    4 After some time, the Ammonites made war against Israel.

    5 When the Ammonites fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.

    6 They said to Jephthah, 'Come and be our leader so we can fight against the Ammonites.'

  • Judg 21:10-12
    3 verses
    68%

    10 So the assembly sent twelve thousand armed men with the command, 'Go and strike down the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead with the sword, including the women and children.'

    11 This is what you are to do: Completely destroy every male and every woman who has had relations with a man.

    12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women who were virgins and had not been intimate with a man. They brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

  • Judg 12:4
    68%

    4 Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim because they had said, "You Gileadites are deserters from Ephraim and Manasseh."

  • Judg 21:1
    68%

    1 The men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, saying, 'None of us will give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.'

  • Judg 13:1
    67%

    1 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

  • 2 Sam 1:24
    67%

    24 O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and finery, who adorned your garments with ornaments of gold.

  • Judg 11:14-15
    2 verses
    67%

    14 Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites,

    15 Jephthah said to him, 'This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites.'

  • Judg 10:3
    67%

    3 After him, Jair the Gileadite arose and judged Israel for twenty-two years.

  • 2 Sam 1:20
    67%

    20 Do not tell it in Gath, do not announce it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

  • Judg 21:7
    67%

    7 'What can we do for the survivors to provide wives, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters?'

  • Deut 21:13
    66%

    13 She shall remove the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, mourning her father and mother for a full month. After that, you may go to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

  • Ruth 1:13
    66%

    13 would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters, it is more bitter for me than for you because the LORD’s hand has turned against me."

  • Judg 14:17
    66%

    17 She cried before him the entire seven days of the feast, and on the seventh day, he told her because she pressed him so much. Then she revealed the answer to the riddle to her people.

  • Lam 1:4
    66%

    4 The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

  • Judg 4:4
    66%

    4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

  • Num 30:3
    66%

    3 If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to bind himself by a promise, he must not break his word; he must do everything he said.

  • Jer 9:20
    66%

    20 'For death has climbed in through our windows and entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets and young men from the public squares.'

  • Deut 22:21
    66%

    21 then they shall bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones. She has committed a disgraceful act in Israel by being promiscuous while in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.

  • Judg 12:1-2
    2 verses
    66%

    1 The men of Ephraim were called together, crossed northward, and said to Jephthah, "Why did you go to fight against the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down on top of you in fire!"

    2 Jephthah replied to them, "I and my people were in a serious struggle with the Ammonites. I called for your help, but you did not save me from their hands.

  • Zech 12:11
    65%

    11 On that day, the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

  • Judg 11:8
    65%

    8 The elders of Gilead replied, 'That is why we have now turned to you. Come with us to fight the Ammonites, and you will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.'

  • Judg 19:2
    65%

    2 But his concubine was unfaithful to him and left him, going to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. She stayed there for four months.

  • Judg 12:9
    65%

    9 He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He sent his daughters outside the family for marriage and brought in thirty daughters from outside for his sons. He judged Israel for seven years.

  • Judg 10:17
    65%

    17 The Ammonites were called together and encamped in Gilead, while the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.

  • Num 36:10
    65%

    10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Judg 21:19
    65%

    19 Then they said, 'There is a yearly festival to the LORD in Shiloh, which lies north of Bethel, east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.'