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Jephthah's Vow
Jephthah's vow was the promise the judge Jephthah made before his battle with the Ammonites: if he returned victorious, he would offer as a burnt offering whoever came out to meet him. The vow led to the offering of his only daughter (Judges 11).
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- Jephthah's DaughterPeople
Jephthah's daughter was the only child of the judge Jephthah, whose story appears in Judges 11. She was given up because of a vow her father made before going to war. Scripture does not record her name.
- JephthahPeople
Jephthah was a judge from Gilead in the Book of Judges. He is widely known for defeating the Ammonites and for losing his only daughter because of a rash vow.
- Judges 11Bible
Judges 11 tells how Jephthah the Gileadite, who had been driven from his home, is made leader of Gilead, defeats the Ammonites, and loses his only daughter because of a vow he made before the victory.
- Judges 12Bible
Judges 12 records the conflict between Jephthah and the Ephraimites, the episode in which Ephraimites were identified by their pronunciation of "Shibboleth," the death of Jephthah, and the accounts of the judges who succeeded him: Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon.
- ChemoshBible
Chemosh is a foreign deity presented in the Old Testament as the god worshiped by the Moabites. Scripture records that Solomon built a high place for Chemosh on the hill before Jerusalem and that King Josiah later defiled it.
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