“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 […]

“Yiftach made a vow to Adonai: ‘If you will hand the people of ‘Amon over to me, then whoever comes out the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the people of ‘Amon will belong to Adonai; I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.‘”-Judges 11:30-31 Following on the […]

“Yiftach made a vow to Adonai: ‘If you will hand the people of ‘Amon over to me, then whatever comes out the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the people of ‘Amon will belong to Adonai; I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.’”-Judges 11:30 Alrighty it’s time […]

So the Holy Spirit has overtaken Yiftach and he’s about to go to war. We’re told the first thing he did was travel to Gilead and the tribal territory of Manessah (the 1/2 of Manessah that was living on the eastern side of the Jordan River) and added more men to his army. And then, […]