Judges 11:40
“That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.”
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Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
There is no allusion extant elsewhere to this annual lamentation of the untimely fate of Jephthah’s daughter. But the…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Judges 11:29-40
We have here Jephthah triumphing in a glorious victory, but, as an alloy to his joy, troubled and distressed by an…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
And it was And it became, altering the verb from fern, to masc. The verse is wrongly divided. For wentrender used to go…