Conclusion of Jephthah's Promise

Jehovah listens to Jeph'thah's promise, and helps him win the victory. When Jeph'thah returns home, do you know who the first one is to come out to meet him? It is his daughter, who is his only child.  'Oh, my daughter! Jeph'thah cries. 'What sadness you are bringing me.  But I have made a promise to Jehovah, and I cannot take it back.'

When Jeph'thah's daughter learns about his promise, at first she is sad too.  For it means that she will have to leave her father and friends.  But she will spend the rest of her life serving Jehovah at his tabernacle in Shi'loh. She she tells her father.  'If you have a made a promise to Jehovah, you must keep it.'

So Jeph'thah's daughter goes to Shi'loh  and spends the rest of her life serving Jehovah at his tabernacle.  Four days out of every year the women of Israel must go to visit her there, and they have a happy time together.  The people love Jeph'thah's daughter because she is such a good servant of Jehovah.

Judges 10:6-18; 11:1-40.

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