37And 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.
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Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-40)We have here Jephthah triumphing in a glorious victory, but, as an alloy to his joy, troubled and distressed by an unadvised vow. I. Jephthah’s victory was clear, and shines very brightly, both to his honour and to the honour of God, his in pleading and God’s in owning a righteous cause. 1. God gave him an excellent spirit, and he improved it bravely, Jdg. 11:29. When it appeared by the people’s u…
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