Judges 11:29-40

[Augustine3]

In this passage Jephthah makes a vow to the Lord asking Him to grant victory over the Ammonites and in return he would go back to his house and sacrifice one of his own brethren (ended up being his daughter).

In the American Bible footnotes it states this was a mere record of Jephthah practicing a pagan,ritual it does not mean God approves. However, the text indicates otherwise it says the spirit of the Lord was with him and that he won triumphantly not just merely. Besides, there is no record of God punishing him for what he did.

I know this can be used as a prelude to Christ’s sacrifice but somehow this event does not sink well…can someone please justify this?

God bless,

 

[Augustine3]

Perhaps God showed His disapproval with the vow by turning the sacrifice toward Jephthah’s daughter as the victim.

Anybody agree/disagree?

 

[melchesidechpio]

In this passage Jephthah makes a vow to the Lord asking Him to grant victory over the Ammonites and in return he would go back to his house and sacrifice one of his own brethren (ended up being his daughter).

In the American Bible footnotes it states this was a mere record of Jephthah practicing a pagan,ritual it does not mean God approves. However, the text indicates otherwise it says the spirit of the Lord was with him and that he won triumphantly not just merely. Besides, there is no record of God punishing him for what he did.

I know this can be used as a prelude to Christ’s sacrifice but somehow this event does not sink well…can someone please justify this?

God bless,

examine these notes from the Haydock Bible Commentary

haydock1859.tripod.com/id575.html

 

[UnityofTrinity]

What I would suggest is that the Lord didn’t bless Jephthah because of his vow, but God is trying to help Israel through Jephthah’s battle. Scripture only said that the Spirit of the Lord was with Jephthah, it never said God agreed with this covenant. This I think is an indicator for us to clearly see that many time, it is not God who punishes us, but it is our own sins(in this case, Jephthah’s pagan vow) that punish ourselves. But in here it also show us a reflection on Jephthah’s daughter obedience.

 

[DPMartin]

In this passage Jephthah makes a vow to the Lord asking Him to grant victory over the Ammonites and in return he would go back to his house and sacrifice one of his own brethren (ended up being his daughter).

In the American Bible footnotes it states this was a mere record of Jephthah practicing a pagan,ritual it does not mean God approves. However, the text indicates otherwise it says the spirit of the Lord was with him and that he won triumphantly not just merely. Besides, there is no record of God punishing him for what he did.

I know this can be used as a prelude to Christ’s sacrifice but somehow this event does not sink well…can someone please justify this?

God bless,

Augustine

A lot of interesting things in the case of Jephthah

Son of a harlot, a strange woman, but yet father of an obedient virgin daughter.

They thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house, but yet there commitment to there own judgement of him, was only flesh deep. For they feared losing what they had in the flesh for like Esau they valued there own skin and the preservation of their part, more then the honor they pretended to have for the father’s house. To the point they gave head of household to Jephthah for his valour in the preservation of there own satisfactions.

There is no request by the Lord for Jephthah to make a vow but the Lord required that he give that which he had, and not of some one else’s.

Note the Lord God gave that which is His, His Son, only Begotten Son, for the salvation of mankind. What the Lord required of Jephthah’s vow was no different then what the Lord God did Himself on the Cross. But again there is no record that the Lord required the vow in the first place.

But what is also interesting is, needless to say, later he served as a judge in Israel hence, his anointing if you will, and the more the challengers try to remove him from this, the more he received in the challenge thereof. Those who sot to expel him forfeited what they had (the household), those who challenged land rights forfeited their land rights, and those who challenged his heritage in Jacob forfeited their’s.

He who seeks the Lord to not be judged but yet judges, has animosity, and receives disappointment in whatever they thought to have right to.