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    Jephthah's daughter passage is difficult to interpret - did Jephthah actually kill his daughter? Careful exegesis is needed. When Jephthah vowed that whatever came out of his house upon his return would be sacrificed, his daughter was the first to greet him. However, the text emphasizes she died a virgin, implying the problem was she never married. Considering context clues like the elders doing nothing for two months and God disapproving human sacrifice, the most probable interpretation is Jephthah's daughter was condemned to lifelong virginity rather than death. Careful exegesis of the immediate context and general biblical principles is necessary to properly understand difficult passages.

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    Jephthah's daughter passage is difficult to interpret - did Jephthah actually kill his daughter? Careful exegesis is needed. When Jephthah vowed that whatever came out of his house upon his return would be sacrificed, his daughter was the first to greet him. However, the text emphasizes she died a virgin, implying the problem was she never married. Considering context clues like the elders doing nothing for two months and God disapproving human sacrifice, the most probable interpretation is Jephthah's daughter was condemned to lifelong virginity rather than death. Careful exegesis of the immediate context and general biblical principles is necessary to properly understand difficult passages.

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    Jephthah's daughter passage is difficult to interpret - did Jephthah actually kill his daughter? Careful exegesis is needed. When Jephthah vowed that whatever came out of his house upon his return would be sacrificed, his daughter was the first to greet him. However, the text emphasizes she died a virgin, implying the problem was she never married. Considering context clues like the elders doing nothing for two months and God disapproving human sacrifice, the most probable interpretation is Jephthah's daughter was condemned to lifelong virginity rather than death. Careful exegesis of the immediate context and general biblical principles is necessary to properly understand difficult passages.

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    Jephthah's daughter passage is difficult to interpret - did Jephthah actually kill his daughter? Careful exegesis is needed. When Jephthah vowed that whatever came out of his house upon his return would be sacrificed, his daughter was the first to greet him. However, the text emphasizes she died a virgin, implying the problem was she never married. Considering context clues like the elders doing nothing for two months and God disapproving human sacrifice, the most probable interpretation is Jephthah's daughter was condemned to lifelong virginity rather than death. Careful exegesis of the immediate context and general biblical principles is necessary to properly understand difficult passages.

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    Jephthahs daughter

    This passage is difficult for to interpreter, really Jephthah killed his


    daughter? Or something else happened? For response this questions we
    need to know some tools to correctly interpret the Bible.
    Textbook
    Whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return
    in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD's, and I will sacrifice
    it as a burnt offering. (Jdg 11:31 NIV)
    We analyze the phrase is in bold, this expression confuse some because
    the phrase sacrifice it as a burnt offering it gives the idea that this
    father killer his daughter. But other clues in the text help us give a
    correct interpretation to the Biblical text.
    Something that you need to know
    When you go to study the Bible is necessary ask yourself some
    questions for example: what? where? when? What is the reason for that?
    Etcetera. If you apply these questions and others to your passage under
    study you can have a better interpretation of the text. For instance:
    1. If Jephthah killed his daughter, why the author mention that she
    was his only child?
    2. Which was the greatest sadness of her daughter? The text says,
    Die a virgin why his daughter is worried about that?
    3. Which it is the reason that the author mentions she died still a
    virgin?
    In these three examples we can see that the major problem may be that
    this woman died virgin I mean that the most probably is that the
    problem was that the Jephthah's daughter "never married" the other
    steps in this study confirm this.
    The immediate context and the general context
    In the immediate context we can see that the elders
    speak with Jephthah about the great problem that had Israel, the elders
    were considered important in Israel (x.3: 16, 18; 4: 29; 12: 21; 17: 5;
    18: 12; 19: 7; 24: 1; Lev.4: 15; 9: 1, etc.) and later in the church (Act.11:
    30; 14: 23; 15: 2; 1Tim. 4: 14; 5: 17) with that in mind the question is
    how its possible that the elders do nothing? Two months passed but
    the elders do nothing, this behavior is very strange (Jud. 11: 39)
    On the other hand in the general context we know that God disapproves
    of human sacrifice (Lev.18: 21; Deut.18: 10; Jer.7: 31). Therefore it is
    difficult to think that God has not done anything.

    Exegesis of the passage


    The last tool that we need to know is the exegesis () that
    means get out of

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