 | William Henry Bennett - Bible - 1907 - 218 pages
...him, dancing and playing on the timbrel. She was his only child ; he had no other son or daughter. When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, " Alas, my daughter ! you have brought me very low, and into sore distress ; for I have made a promise to Jehovah, and I cannot go back." And she said,... | |
 | Christine M. Smith - Religion - 1992 - 216 pages
...the Lord, and I cannot take back my vow" (11:35). Alas, my daughter, my mother, my wife, my lover — you have brought me very low. You have become the cause of great trouble to me, for you have not learned to let boys win and to hide your real strength...; for you have brought forth... | |
 | Michael Welker - Religion - 1994 - 384 pages
...bearers of the Spirit, the ultimate outcome is that the enemy is "subdued before the people of Israel."] Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah; and there...trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the LORD [ie, he has promised something to God], and I cannot take back my vow." She said to him, "My father,... | |
 | Joyce Hollyday - Religion - 1994 - 260 pages
...servant? Someone whose loss he could bear? In a classic case of blaming the victim, Jephthah lamented, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low; you have become the cause of great trouble to me. ... I cannot take back my vow" (Judg. 11:35). He offered her neither comfort nor release. A young woman... | |
 | Adele Reinhartz - Religion - 1998 - 239 pages
...Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), 40. greeted by his daughter attempts to shift blame to her: "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low; you have become the cause of great trouble to me" (11:35a). His own role, however, is not obliterated: "For I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I... | |
 | Jeanne Stevenson Moessner - Religion - 2000 - 412 pages
...timbrels. In a move that is typical for perpetrators of violence, Jephthah blamed the victim, his daughter: "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low; you have become the cause of great trouble to me!" (Judges 11:35). Jephthah never questioned his vow to God. He never realized that to annihilate the... | |
 | John L. Thompson - Religion - 2001 - 305 pages
...seeing his daughter are words not only of lament, but also of blame. Where Jud. 11:35 (NRSV) reads, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low; you have become the cause of great trouble to me," Josephus narrates instead that Jephthah "chided" his daughter "for her haste in meeting him." 34 The... | |
 | Colum Hourihane - Art - 2002 - 260 pages
...dances; she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. And when he saw her, he rent his clothes, and said, Alas my daughter! you have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me: for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I... | |
 | Deborah F. Sawyer - History - 2002 - 196 pages
...account of Abraham, we ate permitred some insighr into Jephrhah's own feelings of hortor at the tragedy: When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, 'Alas, my daughrer! You have broughr me vety low; you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have... | |
 | Daniel H. Weiss, Lisa J. Mahoney - Art - 2004 - 414 pages
...Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah; and there was his daughter coming out to meet him with timbrels and dancing. She was his only child; he had no son or...said, Alas my daughter you have brought me very low ... for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I cannot take back my vow.'" The following scene elaborates... | |
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Alas, my daughter! you have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me; for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot take back my vow. 
