Judges 11:38-40
tells of the rest of her life as she went back to her father and
never had intimacy with a man. She was not killed as you say.
The bible
translations of these account are all written in English. Thus they
have to follow the rules of Grammar. In this case we follow the rule
of Subject-verb agreement.
Which
means that the subject in the account must match the verb
describing its action.
The Subject is
Jephthah. The action is Jephthah Doing what he vowed, which
was Quote;
“whatever comes
out of the doors of my house to meet me when I come back in peace
from the Ammonites, I will surely offer it up to the Lord
as a burnt offering.”
There is no ifs or
buts, it was very plain and simple. “ I will surely offer it up
to the Lord
as a burnt offering.”
There is NOTHING written about remaining a virgin, nothing written
about not having intimacy, or all the other made up excuses that
comes from apologists.
Hundreds
of different translations say the same thing, HE (Jephthah
DID SOMETHING TO HER.)
Jephthah KILLED
her. Which is why She didn’t have intimacy with anyone.
Judges 11: In
different Translations.
GNT After
two months she came back to her father. HE DID WHAT HE HAD
PROMISED to the Lord,
AND SHE DIED STILL A VIRGIN.
NCB she returned to her
father. HE DID WHAT HE HAD PROMISED IN HIS VOW TO DO TO
HER.
KJV And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she
returned unto her father, WHO DID WITH HER her according to
his vow
ICB After two months she returned to her father. Jephthah
DID TO HER what he promised to the Lord.
GW At the end of those two months she came back to her father.
HE DID TO HER what he had vowed
HCS At the end of two months, she returned to her father, and
HE KEPT THE VOW HE HAD MADE ABOUT HER.
That’s
why the All the women in Israel “Mourned
Her every Year”
MOURN;
Definition; To show grief for a death by conventional signs, as by
wearing black clothes.
It’s ridiculous to believe that ALL the Women of Israel made a
special holiday to mourn a girl who never had intimacy. There were
probably hundreds of girls at that time who never had intimacy. There
is always virgins in every generation, both men and women. But a girl
who never had intimacy could still experience Life and enjoy the many
things life offers.
But a Father who sacrifices his innocent, humble daughter, robs her
not only of children, but the more precious gift of all……….LIFE.
What Jephthah did is
the cruelest, sickest, malicious, act of all time. And any God who
even conjures up such a thing, is malevolent to the max.
But people mourn when humans die because they recognize that death is
the end-all event that stops life forever.
Heck, they even made a statue of George Floyd and mourned him in the
USA when he died in police custody. And he was not innocent.
But, in my life time or of what I've read of history, I have never heard of mourning every year for a girl who died a
virgin. And never heard a yearly holiday was made to mourn some girl
who never had intimacy.
These are the stories that are waking up the new generations. We've finally entered the era where information will eventually destroy the idea that the bible is the inspired word of God.
