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the first thing to come out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from fighting the Ammonites shall belong to Yahweh, and I shall sacrifice it as a burnt offering.' (Judges 11, 31)
Jephthah crossed into Ammonite territory to attack them, and Yahweh delivered them into his grasp. (Judges 11, 32)
He beat them from Aroer to the border of Minnith (twenty towns) and to Abel-Keramim. It was a very severe defeat, and the Ammonites were humbled by the Israelites. (Judges 11, 33)
As Jephthah returned to his house at Mizpah, his daughter came out to meet him, dancing to the sound of tambourines. She was his only child; apart from her, he had neither son nor daughter. (Judges 11, 34)
When he saw her, he tore his clothes and exclaimed, 'Oh my daughter, what misery you have brought upon me! You have joined those who bring misery into my life! I have made a promise before Yahweh which I cannot retract.' (Judges 11, 35)
She then said to her father, 'Grant me this! Let me be free for two months. I shall go and wander in the mountains, and with my companions bewail my virginity.' (Judges 11, 37)
He replied, 'Go,' and let her go away for two months. So she went away with her companions and bewailed her virginity in the mountains. (Judges 11, 38)
for the daughters of Israel to leave home year by year and lament over the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days every year. (Judges 11, 40)
The men of Ephraim mobilised; they crossed the Jordan near Zaphon and said to Jephthah, 'Why did you go and make war on the Ammonites without asking us to go with you? We shall burn down your house over your head!' (Judges 12, 1)
Gilead then cut Ephraim off from the fords of the Jordan, and whenever Ephraimite fugitives said, 'Let me cross,' the men of Gilead would ask, 'Are you an Ephraimite?' If he said, 'No,' (Judges 12, 5)
they then said, 'Very well, say Shibboleth.' If anyone said, "Sibboleth", because he could not pronounce it, then they would seize him and kill him by the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell on this occasion. (Judges 12, 6)
Jephthah judged Israel for six years. Jephthah the Gileadite then died and was buried in his town, in Gilead. (Judges 12, 7)
