Judges 11:37

Then she went on to say to him, “Just let me do this: let me walk through the hills for two months with my friends and grieve the fact that I'll never marry.”

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In The King James Version

And she said unto 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 fellows.

In Context

36She replied, “Father, you have made a solemn promise to the Lord. Do to me what you promised, for the Lord gave you victory over your enemies, the Ammonites.”

38“You can go,” he told her. He sent her away for two months, and she and her friends went into the hills and cried because she would never marry.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 1:6Her rival—the other wife—would taunt her badly to upset her because the Lord hadn't given her any children.

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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