Did God really want Jephthah the Gileadite to butcher his daughter?

strange, I was just reading that chapter and I still have many questions myself about it........I read some of the answers you have gotten and one says the girl was kept a virgin and NOT given as a sacrifice, but, the Bible makes it clear that young women went up into the mountain yearly to remember her..... hmmmmmmmm ??? anyway, from what I read, Jephthah made a vow, a sacred vow to God, a not to well thought out one and one I feel that was made for the WRONG reasons, but sense it was made it had to be up held, a vow made to God is not taken lightly by God.... and God could NOT go back and say, *ohhh, that is ok we will over look it this one time, let's do this instead *....... that would mean God, to put in today's' terms, wishy washy and unsure...... *sigh*... . I believe the thing we can get from it all is, do NOT make a vow in haste, and God does NOT do bargains...... just MY humble thoughts......... go in peace......... God bless

Your question supplies the effect that his daughter ended up in smoke..you're in blunders. Did Jephthah somewhat sacrifice his daughter? No. that should not be what he has in strategies. Jehovah detests literal human sacrifice, between the depraved practices of the Canaanites. (Leviticus 18:21; Deuteronomy 12:31) not purely replaced into God’s spirit appearing upon Jephthah whilst he made his vow yet Jehovah additionally blessed his endeavors. The Scriptures communicate properly of Jephthah for his faith and for the placement he performed in connection with the divine purpose. (a million Samuel 12:11; Hebrews 11:32-34) So a human sacrifice—a homicide—is punctiliously out of the question. Jephthah for sure meant that he might commit the single whom he met to the unique service of God. The Mosaic regulation provided for the vowing of souls to Jehovah. working example, women served on the sanctuary, maybe drawing water. (Exodus 38:8; a million Samuel 2:22) Little is ordinary approximately such service or maybe no count if it replaced into usually everlasting. Jephthah curiously had such particular devotion in strategies whilst making his vow, and it variety of feels that his promise implied everlasting service. the two Jephthah’s daughter and later the boy Samuel cooperated with the intention to fulfill the vows of their godly mothers and fathers. (a million Samuel a million:11) As a unswerving worshipper of Jehovah, Jephthah’s daughter herself replaced into purely as confident as her father that his vow could desire to be performed. The sacrifice replaced into super, for it meant that she might in no way get married. She wept over her virginity because of the fact each Israelite wanted to have toddlers with the intention to maintain the relatives call and inheritance. For Jephthah, gratifying the vow meant dropping the employer of his liked purely newborn.

Judges 11:40 says: "From year to year the daughters of Israel would go to give commendation to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in the year." So, she obviously didn't die.

When Jephthah said: “It must also occur that the one coming out, who comes out of the doors of my house to meet me . . . must also become Jehovah’s” he made reference to a person, not an animal, since animals suitable for sacrifice were not likely kept in Israelite homes to have free run there. Besides, the offering of an animal would not show extraordinary devotion to God. Jephthah knew that it might well be his daughter who would come out to meet him. It must be borne in mind that Jehovah’s spirit was on Jephthah at the time; this would prevent any rash vow on Jephthah’s part.

Persons could be devoted to Jehovah’s exclusive service in connection with the sanctuary. It was a right that parents could exercise. Samuel was one such person, promised to tabernacle service by a vow of his mother Hannah before his birth. This vow was approved by her husband Elkanah. As soon as Samuel was weaned, Hannah offered him at the sanctuary. Along with him, Hannah brought an animal sacrifice. (1Samuel 1:11, 22-28; 2:11) Samson was another child specially devoted to God’s service as a Nazirite (Judges 13:2-5, 11-14); also note the father’s authority over a daughter as outlined in Numbers 30:3-5, 16.

When Jephthah brought his daughter to the sanctuary, which was in Shiloh at that time, he undoubtedly accompanied his presentation of her with an animal burnt offering. According to the Law, a burnt offering was slaughtered, skinned, and cut up; the intestines and shanks were washed; and its body, head and all, was burned on the altar. (Leviticus 1:3-9) The wholeness of such offering represented full, unqualified, wholehearted dedication to Jehovah, and when it accompanied another offering (as, for example, when the burnt offering followed the sin offering on the Day of Atonement), it constituted an appeal to Jehovah to accept that other offering. (Leviticus 16:3, 5, 6, 11, 15, 24.)

It was a real sacrifice on the part of both Jephthah and his daughter since he had no other child. (Judges 11:34) Therefore no descendant of his would carry on his name and his inheritance in Israel. Jephthah’s daughter was his only hope for this. She wept, not over her death, but over her “virginity.” It was the desire of every Israelite man and woman to have children and to keep the family name and inheritance alive. (Judges 11:37, 38) Barrenness was a calamity. But Jephthah’s daughter “never had relations with a man.” Had these words applied only to the time prior to the carrying out of the vow, they would have been superfluous because she is specifically said to have been a virgin. That the statement has reference to the fulfilling of the vow is shown in that it follows the expression, “He carried out his vow that he had made toward her.” Actually, the record is pointing out that also after the vow was carried out she maintained her virginity.

Well to put someone right, he did have to offer her as a burnt offering, as that is what he had promised to God. She may have been a virgin when he did, as it says, but that's only to make it more poignant, she hadn't lived much before she died. But she did die willingly, in order to save her father from breaking his vow. I think God would rather have not had him make such a foolish vow in the first place. The story shows great commitment, to a God whom they trusted enough to go through with such a promise.

God is just, loving and kind. For these reasons He would not demand that Japeth would actually sacrifice his daughter. God substituted a ram for Isaac when He demanded Abraham to sacrifice his only legitimate son. Isaac was Abraham's only son just as Jesus was God's only begotten son. This a typology of the future sacrifice of Christ at Calvary. We read of the Ten Commandments in which God stated "Thou shalt not Kill" therefore how could a holy and righteous God allow him to sacrifice his only daughter. When we read she and her companions went to the mountains to bewail her virginity it is a reference to her remaining unmarried for the rest of her life. This passage is a veiled reference to her self-sacrifice because she was willing to sacrifice any hope of marriage in deference to her father's vow unto God.

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your making 2 mistakes your judging an old testiment book with new testiment understanding's and your assuming the god in the old testiment doesn't want deals to be kept becouse of the out come

i'm not a christian but i have read the bible several times and the two versions of god are different, similar but different.

This just shows that you should never make a bargain, vow, or bet until you know all the consequences of it.

Jephthah did sacrifice his daughter, but it was by her staying a virgin. Jeez!!! y can't u get an NIV Bible?!!

Hold on a minute, God thought it was fine for Joshua and his army to slaughter the population of Jericho. . and to misuse a phrase, God didn't help the Midianites whose whole tribe was slaughtered with his blessing. . an early version of ethnic cleansing.

And all this is in the 'Good Book'. . what the f%$k is the 'Bad Book' like?