Judges 11 Summary: 5 Minute Bible Study
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Get a quick overview of Judges 11, including its themes and key events. This article provides a short summary of Judges chapter eleven, and will help you understand the book of Judges as a whole.
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Still reading the Bible from beginning to end with your video lesson being part of my morning reading. Thank you for helping my studies and for the " wisdom" I garner from the readings.
I’m reading through Judges and these outlines help me remember all the specific groups and actions that took place in each chapter. I appreciate you making these. I pray God blesses you as you continue to share this word and witness to others. ❤
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Great job handling the subject matter. We just had the debate in our church, a few weeks ago (maybe a month ago). I believe as a body of believers we grew from it.
Thanks I really need this 😄
Thank you
I am with you. I believe he did sacrifice her because he promised God, but it wasn’t something that God honored. Your application is right on point (per usual). I wanted to dedicate the first 3 days of every month to fasting but I don’t want to say that and then not do it. So as the months come I just do it instead of telling God this is what I will always do. Do you think that is okay?
Interesting but beyond my pay grade. Great job!
It would be really scary to make a foolish promise like that😭
didn’t God ask Abraham to sacrifice his son, Issac ? I believe so. It was to test Abraham’s faith that God would stay true to his promise. Even though he finally got his promise of a son, God asked him to give it up. Then an angel stopped him after he proved he would do it and trust that God would raise him from the dead.
Your take is valid but I get the feeling that more in being said
Something I believe we are all missing here...Jephthah did not say he was making a "vow" but rather a "vowel"...thus being the letter "O" as in "O, there's my sweet daughter, out to greet me!"
How about Abraham offer isaac?
God specifically said DO NOT KILL. So why would he?
This is a law/commandment is for us humans not for him.
Quick question: why would the Lord help him win the battle if he knew it would lead him to sacrificing his own daughter "in the name of God"?
I know God wanted Israel be free.
Curious.
In Hebrews 11:32 Jephthah is listed with an imposing group of men from the OT. After describing the faith of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses the author, then gives a short list of other giants of the faith from history, including Jephthah. "And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets; who through faith subdued Kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens." Jephthah is included with a powerful group here. Could he reasonably be included in this list as a child sacrificer? The text clearly indicates Jephtha's knowledge of the scriptures and he and his daughter would have been keenly aware of the Ten Commandment; Thou shalt not kill, and Honor your mother and your father. Judges 11 verses 37, 38 and 39 speak of Jephthah's daughter's virginity and his vow. This is no coincidence. She was his only daughter. He sacrificed his legacy. he would have no heirs. Verse 40 goes on to describe Jephthah's daughter's legacy of a tradition from then on by the daughters of Israel to "lament" her for four days a year. This is the only occasion in the bible that the Hebrew word "tanah" is translated as lament; tanah meaning to celebrate, commemorate, and praise. It strains credulity that child sacrifice would be celebrated in these ways. Jephthah's daughter sacrificed her life as did Samuel being given to the Lord and giving up a family and a normal existence. Just prior to Jephthah making his vow to the Lord, the Spirit of the Lord came upon him. Child sacrifice was not part of the Spirit of the Lord. Deuteronomy 18:10 "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, " Even though it is easy to make the implication that Jephthah tore his clothes as a sign of mourning, a closer look at the practice reveals it was also "an expression of an inner feeling of imminent danger." As written in "Tearing of clothes: A study of an ancient practice in the Old Testament
" Verbum et Ecclesia ISSN: (Online) 2074-7705, (Print) 1609-9982 If we read Jephthah's vow with the conjunction "or" instead of "and" the alternative to child sacrifice is much more plausible. This is the choice of The Literal Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, as well as A Faithful Version of the Bible. All agree that there is no direct evidence in the scripture that he murdered his own daughter. That alone should lead us to the truth of the story. In short, it is in my opinion bad theology to interpret Judges 11 in light of child sacrifice.
I don't disagree with your conclusion, that Jephthah sparred his daughter. I disagree with your reasoning.
You can praise someone for their Godly actions and triumphs without taking away from their atrocities. Just like how your evil deeds do not wipe away the good that you do. Jephthah toppled an opposing army by acting on his faith in the Lord. Jephthah, just like most of the judges, does something ungodly and sinful. This is a recurring theme in Judges. Even King David does ungodly things during his reign and yet he is still a great prophet and king. We are not defined solely by our evil.
Just because it is unlawful and ungodly, doesn't mean he didn't do it. Other Judges murdered and worshipped false idols. Abimelech was not a good judge, but you can still point out his strengths during his short reign.
You state that the lord never commanded human sacrifice but he commanded Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Genesis 22 verse 2.
True, but He also revealed in that same instance that He did not intend for Isaac to be sacrificed.
@2BeLikeChrist I completely agree with you. He sent an angel to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac and then the Lord provided a ram for a sacrifice. God did not do that with Jephthah.