Judges 11:40

KJV1611 – Modern English

That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

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  • Judg 5:11 : 11 Those who are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they recount the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of His villages in Israel; then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
  • 1 Kgs 9:25 : 25 Three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.

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  • Judg 11:34-39
    6 verses
    84%

    34And Jephthah came to Mizpeh to his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances; and she was his only child; besides her, he had neither son nor daughter.

    35And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me: for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot go back.

    36And she said to him, My father, if you have opened your mouth to the LORD, do to me according to what has proceeded out of your mouth; forasmuch as the LORD has taken vengeance for you upon your enemies, even of the children of Ammon.

    37And 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 companions.

    38And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

    39And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,

  • Judg 12:7
    72%

    7And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

  • Judg 11:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not do according to your words.

    11Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.

  • Judg 11:28-32
    5 verses
    70%

    28However, the king of the children of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

    29Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he advanced towards the children of Ammon.

    30And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

    31Then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

    32So Jephthah advanced towards the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

  • Judg 11:1-6
    6 verses
    70%

    1Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

    2And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they drove Jephthah out, and said to him, You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of a strange woman.

    3Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.

    4And it came to pass, in the process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

    5And it happened, when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

    6And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

  • Judg 21:10-12
    3 verses
    68%

    10And the congregation sent there twelve thousand of their best men, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and the children.

    11And this is what you shall do: You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.

    12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known a man by lying with any male; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

  • Judg 12:4
    68%

    4Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

  • Judg 21:1
    68%

    1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.

  • Judg 13:1
    67%

    1And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.

  • 2 Sam 1:24
    67%

    24You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

  • Judg 11:14-15
    2 verses
    67%

    14And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon:

    15And said to him, Thus says Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

  • Judg 10:3
    67%

    3And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, who judged Israel for twenty-two years.

  • 2 Sam 1:20
    67%

    20Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

  • Judg 21:7
    67%

    7What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them our daughters as wives?

  • Deut 21:13
    66%

    13And she shall put off the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, and mourn for her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

  • Ruth 1:13
    66%

    13Would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.

  • Judg 14:17
    66%

    17And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted. And it came to pass on the seventh day that he told her, because she pressed him greatly. And she told the riddle to the children of her people.

  • Lam 1:4
    66%

    4The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  • Judg 4:4
    66%

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

  • Num 30:3
    66%

    3If a woman also makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth,

  • Jer 9:20
    66%

    20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

  • Deut 22:21
    66%

    21Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall you put away the evil from among you.

  • Judg 12:1-2
    2 verses
    66%

    1And the men of Ephraim gathered together, and went northward, and said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.

    2And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you did not deliver me out of their hands.

  • Zech 12:11
    65%

    11In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo.

  • Judg 11:8
    65%

    8And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore we return to you now, that you may go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

  • Judg 19:2
    65%

    2And his concubine was unfaithful to him and went away to her father's house in Bethlehem in Judah and was there for four months.

  • Judg 12:9
    65%

    9And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and brought in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

  • Judg 10:17
    65%

    17Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.

  • Num 36:10
    65%

    10As the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:

  • Judg 21:19
    65%

    19Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.