Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites. And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD : “If you give the Ammonites into my hands, 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.”
Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into his hands. He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon.
When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of tambourines! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, “Oh! My daughter! You have made me miserable and wretched, because I have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break.”
“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me just as you promised, now that the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites. But grant me this one request,” she said. “Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.”
“You may go,” he said. And he let her go for two months. She and the girls went into the hills and wept because she would never marry. After the two months, she returned to her father and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin.
Discuss.
Interesting how “And she was a virgin.” is sort of an afterthought. Nobody knows for sure, really.
Well, except for God. And we all know what he likes to do with little girls. Him and his representatives here on Earth who speaketh in his name.
And whats up with that “Jephthah”? what kind of fucked-up name is that? Is that Aramaic for Jethro? Or maybe Jim-Bob. Fucker goes around burning women, kids, houses and villiages and I don’t see anyone calling him a litterbug. He must’ve been white.
Well no duh she was a virgin. Is there any other kind of burnt offering?
Barbaric tribal folklore.
It is endlessly fascinating to me that so many people are insulated from recognizing this stuff for what it is.
Of course, as a good Liberal, I have to wonder what’s hidden in my own blind spots. Whatever it is, it doesn’t include murdering any family members in thanks to a deity for helping me with genocidal slaughter as part of the “greatest moral guide the world has ever known.”
Barbaric. Tribal. Folklore.
Jephthah was a man of his word. God in this story was not a nice entity.
How tragic. How Greek. Great story just full of hubris. And that Jephthah a son of a whore and became a judge and was a great warrior. And this story is in the bible, and Jewish and Christian scholars kinda wish the story had come out of the front door before the daughter and was itself burned as a burnt offering. Could it be that the Hebrews actually didn’t do all that killing described in Deuteronomy and were actually just one of the many tribes of Cannites who happened to become top dog over time in a far more peaceful manner. This could just be a story, but apparently human sacrifice was not unknown at this time in this part of the world.
Go Seahawks! Is football our national religion?
Back then nobody lived past thirty anyway. And had she married, she would’ve had a fifty-fifty chance of dying in childbirth. So it really was just a question of sooner or later.
Why can’t the non Jews go find their own collections of stories to create origin legends? Maybe it as because the Hebrew d invented writing while the ancestors of the Europeans were still doing advanced math by cou b ting on their toes and telling stories about talking trees.
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I take it that you’re a Jew yourself. Imagine, I always thought God was a Methodist, or, at least on an outside chance, a Catholic!
Go home, God, you’re drunk.
How could I be a Jew? I chose them and made you in my image. Can I be you or a Jew?
As for worshippers of me as the father of a son, give me a break! Someone here hear about the Y chromosome and DNA?
Can you imagine how I would ;look as a Jew?
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It doesn’t matter. We have no way of knowing what the hell existence really is or what happens after death. Be whatever you want to be.
Where was it written Jephthah offered his daughter as a sacrifice? Do atheistic libtards read God’s word?
Obummer sending soldiers to their doom? http://hotair.com/archives/201.....get-ebola/
Once again Obummer has no clue… http://hotair.com/archives/201.....t-working/
Remember HA DUMMOCRETINS, you voted for someone who had no clue, has no clue and will continue to demonstrate they have no clue!
How come we just don’t do a good burnt offering anymore?
I voted for the best possible president. Romney?McCain? Not a chance.