Judges 11:37

World English Bible (2000)

She said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions."

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 1:25 : 25 "Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men."
  • 1 Sam 1:6 : 6 Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

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  • Judg 11:38-40
    3 verses
    93%

    38He said, "Go." He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

    39It happened 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 was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel,

    40that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

  • Judg 11:35-36
    2 verses
    83%

    35It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can't go back."

    36She said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon."

  • Judg 19:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.

    3Her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys: and she brought him into her father's house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

  • Deut 21:13
    74%

    13and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail 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 1:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, 'I have hope,' if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;

    13would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me."

  • Josh 2:16
    72%

    16She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way."

  • Gen 38:19
    71%

    19She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

  • Gen 24:55
    71%

    55Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go."

  • 2 Sam 13:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12She answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don't you do this folly.

    13I, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."

  • 1 Sam 1:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept bitterly.

    11She vowed a vow, and said, "Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head."

  • Judg 15:2
    70%

    2Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead."

  • Deut 22:14
    70%

    14and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"

  • Ruth 1:18
    70%

    18When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.

  • Gen 38:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

    17He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"

  • 1 Sam 1:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, "Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever."

    23Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word." So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.

  • Judg 14:17
    69%

    17She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

  • Hos 3:3
    69%

    3I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you."

  • Deut 22:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;

    21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • Deut 22:17
    69%

    17and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, 'I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;' and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity." They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

  • Hos 2:3
    68%

    3Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

  • Joel 1:8
    68%

    8Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

  • Judg 19:8-9
    2 verses
    68%

    8He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady's father said, "Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines;" and they both ate.

    9When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home."

  • Judg 19:28
    68%

    28He said to her, "Get up, and let us be going!" but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.

  • Num 30:3
    68%

    3"Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

  • Deut 22:27
    68%

    27for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.

  • 1 Sam 1:18
    68%

    18She said, "Let your handmaid find favor in your sight." So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.

  • Gen 24:37
    68%

    37My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

  • Ruth 1:7
    68%

    7She went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

  • Josh 2:21
    68%

    21She said, "According to your words, so be it." She sent them away, and they departed. She tied the scarlet line in the window.

  • Judg 19:24
    68%

    24Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don't do any such folly."

  • Ruth 3:16
    68%

    16When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did it go, my daughter?" She told her all that the man had done to her.

  • Gen 31:35
    68%

    35She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for I'm having my period." He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.

  • 1 Sam 1:16
    68%

    16Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation."

  • 2 Sam 13:16
    67%

    16She said to him, "Not so, because this great wrong in sending me away is worse than the other that you did to me!" But he would not listen to her.

  • 2 Kgs 4:23
    67%

    23He said, "Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath." She said, "It's alright."

  • Gen 38:14
    67%

    14She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.

  • 2 Kgs 8:3
    67%

    3It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. Then she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

  • Ruth 3:11
    67%

    11Now, my daughter, don't be afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people does know that you are a worthy woman.