Verse 40

Judges 11:40

Geneva Bible

40 The daughters of Israel went yere by yere to lament the daughter of Iphtah the Gileadite, foure dayes in a yeere.
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִ/יָּמִ֣ים יָמִ֗ימָ/ה תֵּלַ֨כְנָה֙ בְּנ֣וֹת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְ/תַנּ֕וֹת לְ/בַת יִפְתָּ֖ח הַ/גִּלְעָדִ֑י אַרְבַּ֥עַת יָמִ֖ים בַּ/שָּׁנָֽה
English Translation
For four days in the year, the daughters of Israel would go out to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
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Chapter 11 Context
1 Then Gilead begate Iphtah, and Iphtah the Gileadite was a valiant man, but the sonne of an harlot. Focus ↗
2 And Gileads wife bare him sonnes, and when the womans children were come to age, they thrust out Iph... Focus ↗
3 Then Iphtah fledde from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there gathered idle fellowes... Focus ↗
4 And in processe of time the children of Ammon made warre with Israel. Focus ↗
5 And when the children of Ammon fought with Israel, the Elders of Gilead went to fet Iphtah out of th... Focus ↗
6 And they saide vnto Iphtah, Come and be our captaine, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. Focus ↗
7 Iphtah then answered the Elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expell me out of my fathers house... Focus ↗
8 Then the Elders of Gilead saide vnto Iphtah, Therefore we turne againe to thee now, that thou mayest... Focus ↗
9 And Iphtah said vnto the Elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home againe to fight against the children... Focus ↗
10 And the Elders of Gilead saide to Iphtah, The Lord be witnesse betweene vs, if we doe not according... Focus ↗
11 Then Iphtah went with the Elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captaine ouer them: and... Focus ↗
12 Then Iphtah sent messengers vnto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to doe wi... Focus ↗
13 And the King of the children of Ammon answered vnto the messengers of Iphtah, Because Israel tooke m... Focus ↗
14 Yet Iphtah sent messengers againe vnto the King of the children of Ammon, Focus ↗
15 And said vnto him, Thus saith Iphtah, Israel tooke not the lande of Moab, nor the lande of the child... Focus ↗
16 But when Israel came vp from Egypt, and walked through the wildernesse vnto the redde Sea, then they... Focus ↗
17 And Israel sent messengers vnto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, goe thorowe thy lande... Focus ↗
18 Then they went through the wildernesse, and compassed the lande of Edom, and the lande of Moab, and... Focus ↗
19 Also Israel sent messengers vnto Sihon, King of the Amorites, the King of Heshbon, and Israel said v... Focus ↗
20 But Sihon consented not to Israel, that he shoulde goe through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his... Focus ↗
21 And the Lord God (Elohim) of Israel gaue Sihon and all his folke into the handes of Israel, and they... Focus ↗
22 And they possessed all the coast of the Amorites, from Arnon vnto Iabbok, and from the wildernesse e... Focus ↗
23 Nowe therefore the Lord God (Elohim) of Israel hath cast out the Amorites before his people Israel,... Focus ↗
24 Wouldest not thou possesse that which Chemosh thy god giueth thee to possesse? So whomesoeuer the Lo... Focus ↗
25 And art thou nowe farre better then Balak the sonne of Zippor King of Moab? did he not striue with I... Focus ↗
26 When Israel dwelt in Heshbon and in her townes, and in Aroer and in her townes, and in all the citie... Focus ↗
27 Wherefore, I haue not offended thee: but thou doest me wrong to warre against me. The Lord the Iudge... Focus ↗
28 Howbeit the King of the children of Ammon hearkened not vnto the wordes of Iphtah, which he had sent... Focus ↗
29 Then the Spirite of the Lord came vpon Iphtah, and he passed ouer to Gilead and to Manasseh, and cam... Focus ↗
30 And Iphtah vowed a vowe vnto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt deliuer the children of Ammon into mi... Focus ↗
31 Then that thing that commeth out of the doores of mine house to meete me, when I come home in peace... Focus ↗
32 And so Iphtah went vnto the children of Ammon to fight against them, and the Lord deliuered them int... Focus ↗
33 And he smote them from Aroer euen till thou come to Minnith, twentie cities, and so foorth to Abel o... Focus ↗
34 Nowe when Iphtah came to Mizpeh vnto his house, beholde, his daughter came out to meete him with tim... Focus ↗
35 And when hee sawe her, hee rent his clothes, and saide, Alas my daughter, thou hast brought me lowe,... Focus ↗
36 And she said vnto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth vnto the Lord, doe with me as thou h... Focus ↗
37 Also she saide vnto her father, Doe thus much for me: suffer me two moneths, that I may goe to the m... Focus ↗
38 And he sayde, Goe: and he sent her away two moneths: so she went with her companions, and lamented h... Focus ↗
39 And after the ende of two moneths, she turned againe vnto her father, who did with her according to... Focus ↗
40 The daughters of Israel went yere by yere to lament the daughter of Iphtah the Gileadite, foure daye...