29 ¶ Then the [a]Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over to Gilead, and to Manasseh, and came to Mizpah in Gilead, and from Mizpah in Gilead he went unto the children of Ammon.

30 And Jephthah [b]vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

31 Then that thing that cometh out of the doors of mine house to meet me, when I come home in peace from the children of Ammon, shall be the Lord’s, and I will offer it for a burnt offering.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 11:29 That is, the spirit of strength and zeal.
  2. Judges 11:30 As the Apostle commendeth Jephthah for his worthy enterprise in delivering the people, Heb. 11:32, so by his rash vow and wicked performance of the same, his victory was defaced: and here we see that the sins of the godly do not utterly extinguish their faith.

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