Judges 11:38

And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

37Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate.

39And at the end of two months she went back to her father, who did with her as he had said in his oath: and she had never been touched by a man. So it became a rule in Israel,

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 8:13You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.

Matthew Henry on Judges 11:30-40

Jephthah's Vow. ( b. c. 1143.) 29 Then 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 passed over unto the children of Ammon. 30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord , and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, 31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord… Read the whole commentary →

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