A lot of folks judge the vow Yiftach made as a rash and off-the-cuff decision that reflected the mind of an ignorant thug. However, when we examine how Yiftach operated, we see that’s far from the case. He may have been a gangster but he proved to be a man of both wisdom and reason. […]

“After two months she returned to her father, and he did with her what he had vowed; she had remained a virgin. So it became a law in Israel that the women of Israel would go every year for four days to lament the daughter of Yiftach from Gil‘ad.”-Judges 11:39-40 I wanna show you a […]

So let’s go through all of the main arguments why people say Jephthah didn’t really kill his daughter. ARGUMENT 1 If Jephthah possessed even one inkling of Torah understanding, he would know that the Law of Moses forbid human sacrifice and thus the thought to commit such an abomination would never even have crossed his […]

“After two months she returned to her father, and he did with her what he had vowed; she had remained a virgin. So it became a law in Israel…”-Judges 11:39 We’ve been discussing the controversial topic of Jephthah killing his daughter and offering her up to the Lord as a burnt sacrifice. And I gotta […]

So we’ve already established that Jephthah had a literal human sacrifice in mind when he made his vow to the Lord. Piggybacking on top of that, here’s another interesting fact you can tell those folks who insist that Jephthah did NOT kill his daughter and make a human sacrifice out of her. When we examine […]