wordsower Posted September 28, 2003 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,545 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 30 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/18/2002 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/27/1968 Share Posted September 28, 2003 I came across this this morning and it is quite disturbing. I know there is some deeper meaning to the story--surely. This man promised God if He would deliver his enemies into his hand he would sacrifice the first thing that came out of his house. What did he think would come out of his house?? His daughter comes happy, dancing to greet him and he tells her he has to kill her, offer her as a burnt sacrifice! This is very odd!! Any insight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsower Posted September 28, 2003 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,545 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 30 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/18/2002 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/27/1968 Author Share Posted September 28, 2003 I found this commentary: (nice dialogue with myself) by Kyle Pope The book of Judges describes what has been called the Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peaches Posted September 28, 2003 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,315 Content Per Day: 0.30 Reputation: 14 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/25/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted September 28, 2003 very interesting wordsower. very very interesting . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsower Posted September 29, 2003 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,545 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 30 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/18/2002 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/27/1968 Author Share Posted September 29, 2003 Despite the commentary, I think he killed her, that is what it looks like to me, I guess he was a foolish man, this was clearly against the law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traveller Posted September 29, 2003 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 827 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 12,101 Content Per Day: 1.50 Reputation: 249 Days Won: 3 Joined: 04/01/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted September 29, 2003 wordsower, I do too, because it says that he would offer up a burnt sacrifice. He really wasn't a smart guy. See, the whole vow was needless. The victory was already his, he didn't have to have anythign additional from the Lord. It says in Judges 11 29. Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites. This was before he made the vow. By the Spirit of the Lord "coming on" him, he was confirmed in his victory. He should have just trusted God and gone on about his war. I think this is telling us that too many times we want assurances for something that has already been promised, which causes us to lose out on blessings that we already have. Good thread wordsower! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsower Posted September 29, 2003 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,545 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 30 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/18/2002 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/27/1968 Author Share Posted September 29, 2003 The people in Judges were quite strange, there is a lot of weird stuff in there. There is also scripture, I think in Proverbs, that says not to make foolish vows to the Lord. Surely he knew that his daughter might be the one to come out of his door first, what was he thinking? His only child at that, which is really stressed in the story, so what might that mean? Sometimes I wonder why these strange things are in the bible, but I know they are there for a reason. Maybe I think too much. :x: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traveller Posted September 29, 2003 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 827 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 12,101 Content Per Day: 1.50 Reputation: 249 Days Won: 3 Joined: 04/01/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted September 29, 2003 No, wordsower - you are right on target! The tihings in the bible are all there for a reason, and many things have multiple meanings. I don't think that man will ever know everything contained in the good book, because it is alive and so very intricate. God did not overlook anything. Not from the naming of a baby to the date that something happened to the place it occured to the times a person is to be forgiven. It all has depth and meaning. So many times we read through and don't see the details. It's a beautiful beautiful work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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