after johosaphat return from the battle in victory and saw his daughter first. did he immediately kill the daughter or did he give the daughter some time or. if the daughter was kill what form of sacrifice went on
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The name was Jephthah.
Judges 11:30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, 31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Jephthah was a Hebrew. The Hebrews did not burn their children; Egyptians burned their children. The custom among the Hebrews was to send a child to serve in the temple, and that was called "burnt offering". This is confirmed in the rest of the chapter, where it says her friends went to visit her every year thereafter.
39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, 40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
This fact is recalled in the story of Abraham and Isaac, the point of the story being that Abraham had spent so much time in Egypt that he had forgotten that Hebrews don't burn their children.
Yep, that's exactly right.
That's actually really interesting, I didn't realize this about this passage before. Guess that goes to show you should never take a single verse out of context.