Latest Study Article: Was Jephthah surprised at his daughter coming out?

by garbonzo 41 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • Poztate
    Poztate

    Maybe he was hoping his wife would come out and that would be a good chance to get rid of her...

  • DaCheech
    DaCheech

    I like Poztate's explanation...........

    but anyway, these "godfearing" people did have slaves!

  • ShirleyW
    ShirleyW

    Soft+Gentle

    I agree with all four of your posts above . . .

  • NewChapter
    NewChapter

    Maybe he wanted to get out of paying for an expensive wedding.

  • transhuman68
    transhuman68

    Did this come as a surprise to Jephthah? Not likely, for he had but one child. He fulfilled his vow by devoting his daughter to exclusive service at Jehovah’s sanctuary at Shiloh.

    Yaaaas.... as a burnt-offering. What foolish interpretations the Watchtower makes for it's own benefit.

  • hamsterbait
    hamsterbait

    If his daughter had the audacity to come out, he should have stoned her to death.

    HB

  • ssn587
    ssn587

    it was to be a burnt sacrifice not duty at a temple somewhere else. a burnt sacrifice. the WTBTS always tries to change it to something else. probablyto try and get young ones to donate their lives working at the publishing company.

  • Sulla
    Sulla

    It is clasic JW reasoning. It is important to them that this story NOT be about human sacrifice, even though this story is about human sacrifice.

    So, the typical reading is that Jeptha made the vow, thinking that, in a household as large as his, the probability that he would have to pay up with one of his own was pretty small. Bad luck ensues, thus the, "Oh shit!"

    The JW thinking is that everybody knows that he would have expected -- or held out the strong possibility -- that it would not be a servant who came out first. Therefore, he wouldn't have made a vow so dangerous to his personal family.

  • notjustyet
    notjustyet

    You mean that Jephthah duaghters was to be sacrificed, like killed?

    I always thought that it was to do some type of lifetime service for the temple or something.

    Why have I never been told this, how do I know that it is true now, where is the proof?

  • transhuman68
    transhuman68

    Check the link I posted on this thread- my post #1617

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