Judges 11:30
New International Version
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: “If you give the Ammonites into my hands,

New Living Translation
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. He said, “If you give me victory over the Ammonites,

English Standard Version
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand,

Berean Standard Bible
Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,

King James Bible
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

New King James Version
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, “If You will indeed deliver the people of Ammon into my hands,

New American Standard Bible
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, “If You will indeed hand over to me the sons of Ammon,

NASB 1995
Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, “If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

NASB 1977
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, “If Thou wilt indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh and said, “If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

Amplified Bible
Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, “If You will indeed give the Ammonites into my hand,

Christian Standard Bible
Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If you in fact hand over the Ammonites to me,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If You will hand over the Ammonites to me,

American Standard Version
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Naphthakh vowed a vow to LORD JEHOVAH and said: “If you will fully hand over the sons of Amon into my hands

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Jephthae vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

Contemporary English Version
he promised the LORD, "If you will let me defeat the Ammonites

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

English Revised Version
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into mine hand,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. He said, "If you will really hand Ammon over to me,

Good News Translation
Jephthah promised the LORD: "If you will give me victory over the Ammonites,

International Standard Version
Jephthah made this solemn vow to the LORD: "If you truly give the Ammonites into my control,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said: 'If Thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

Literal Standard Version
And Jephthah vows a vow to YHWH and says, “If You give the sons of Ammon into my hand at all—

Majority Standard Bible
Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,

New American Bible
Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. “If you deliver the Ammonites into my power,” he said,

NET Bible
Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, saying, "If you really do hand the Ammonites over to me,

New Revised Standard Version
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand,

New Heart English Bible
Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, "If you will indeed deliver the people of Ammon into my hand,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

World English Bible
Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jephthah voweth a vow to Jehovah, and saith, 'If Thou dost at all give the Bene-Ammon into my hand --

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Audio Bible



Context
Jephthah's Tragic Vow
29Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, then through Mizpah of Gilead. And from there he advanced against the Ammonites. 30Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand, 31then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”…

Cross References
Genesis 28:20
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,

Numbers 21:2
So Israel made a vow to the LORD: "If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction."

Judges 11:29
Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, then through Mizpah of Gilead. And from there he advanced against the Ammonites.

Judges 11:31
then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering."


Treasury of Scripture

And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you shall without fail deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

Genesis 28:20
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Numbers 30:2
If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

1 Samuel 1:11
And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head.

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Judges 11
1. The covenant between Jephthah and the Gileadites, that he should lead
12. The treaty of peace between him and the Ammonites is in vain
29. Jephthah's vow
32. His conquest of the Ammonites
34. He performs his vow on his daughter.














(30) Jephthah vowed a vow.--This was a practice among all ancient nations, but specially among the Jews (Genesis 28:20-22; 1Samuel 1:11; 2Samuel 15:8; Psalm 66:13).

Verses 30, 31. - And Jephthah vowed a vow. This verse and the following go back to relate something which preceded his passing over to the children of Ammon, viz., his rash and unhappy vow. This is related, as so many things in Scripture are, without note or comment, and the reader must pass his own sentence upon the deed. That sentence can only be one of unreserved con- detonation on the part of any one acquainted with the spirit and letter of the word of God. Many attempts have been made to show that Jephthah only contemplated the offering of an animal in sacrifice; but the natural and indeed necessary interpretation of the words shows that he had a human victim in mind. He could not expect any but a human being to come forth from the doors of his house, nor could any but a human being come forth "to meet him" - a common phrase always spoken of men (Genesis 14:17; Genesis 24:65; Exodus 4:14; Exodus 18:7; Numbers 20:20; 1 Samuel 25:34, etc., and below in ver. 34). Obviously, in the greatness of his danger and the extreme hazard of his undertaking (Judges 12:3), he thought to propitiate God's favour by a terrible and extraordinary vow. But if we ask how Jephthah came to have such erroneous notions of the character of God, the answer is not far to seek. Jephthah was "the son of a strange woman," probably, as we have seen, a Syrian (Judges 11:1-11, note), and had passed many years of his life as an exile in Syria. Now it is well known that human sacrifices were frequently practised in Syria, as they were also by the Ammonites, who made their children pass through the fire to Moloch, and it cannot surprise us that a man brought up as Jephthah was, and leading the life of a freebooter at the head of a band of Syrian outlaws, should have the common Syrian notion of the efficacy of human sacrifices in great emergencies. His language, indeed, about Jehovah and Chemosh in ver. 24 savoured of semi-heathenism. Nor is it any valid objection that we are told in ver. 29 that "the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah." The phrase does not mean that thenceforth he was altogether under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, so that all that he did was inspired by the Spirit of truth and wisdom, but that the Spirit of the Lord inspired him with extraordinary strength and power for the great task of leading Israel to battle against the Ammonites. And I will offer. The rendering suggested by some, or I will offer, meaning, if the first. comer is a human being he shall be the Lord's, or if it is an animal I will offer it as a burnt offering, is wholly inadmissible.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Jephthah
יִפְתָּ֥ח (yip̄·tāḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3316: Jephthah -- 'He opens', a Gileadite, also a city of Judah

made
וַיִּדַּ֨ר (way·yid·dar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5087: To promise

this vow
נֶ֛דֶר (ne·ḏer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5088: A promise, a thing promised

to the LORD:
לַיהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

“If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

indeed
נָת֥וֹן (nā·ṯō·wn)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

You will deliver
תִּתֵּ֛ן (tit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

the Ammonites
בְּנֵ֥י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

into my hands,
בְּיָדִֽי׃ (bə·yā·ḏî)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3027: A hand


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