Judges 11:14

11:14 Jephthah sent messengers back to the Ammonite king

Judges 11:28

11:28 But the Ammonite king disregarded ¹  the message sent by Jephthah. ² 

Judges 11:30

11:30 Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, saying, “If you really do hand the Ammonites over to me,

Judges 11:32

11:32 Jephthah approached ³  the Ammonites to fight with them, and the Lord handed them over to him.

Judges 11:40

11:40 Every year ⁴  Israelite women commemorate ⁵  the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days. ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “did not listen to.”

² tn Heb “Jephthah’s words which he sent to him.”

¹ tn Heb “passed over to.”

¹ tn Heb “From days to days,” a Hebrew idiom for “annually.”

² tn Heb “go to commemorate.” The rare Hebrew verb תָּנָה (tanah, “to tell; to repeat; to recount”) occurs only here and in 5:11.

³ tn The Hebrew text adds, “in the year.” This is redundant (note “every year” at the beginning of the verse) and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.