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Jephthah
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Jephthah
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Jephthah the Gileadite
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The land and the judges
c. 1106–1100 BC · judged Israel six years
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Jephthah the Gileadite, a mighty man of valour, the son of an harlot, thrust out by his brethren to the land of Tob; the elders of Gilead fetched him to fight Ammon; he sent messengers to reason first; the Spirit of the LORD came upon him; he vowed a vow unto the LORD, and when he came home his daughter, his only child, came out to meet him with timbrels and dances: 'Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low… I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back'; she asked two months to bewail her virginity, and he did with her according to his vow; the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament her four days in a year. He judged Israel six years.
Counted from Scripture: He told the king of Ammon that Israel had dwelt in Heshbon three hundred years (Judg 11:26): three hundred years after the crossing of Jordan (c. 1406 BC).
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They have made a cake that looks like water. A wobbly droplet you eat on purpose.
In my day water was what you prayed for in a dry land, not what you plated.
Gilead is hills and springs; we knew what a dry year was
My brothers thrust me out.
Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house, they said; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
So I live in the land of Tob now.
