 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pàgines
...The daughters of Moreen mourned her one day in the year, when the dark winds of autumn returned.] And it was a custom in Israel, that " the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jcphthah, four days in the year." Judges, xi. 39- Quoted by Macpherson. In transferring the custom... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 430 pàgines
...unto her father, who did with iber according to hjs vow which he had vowed. And it wa^ a custom• ia Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadifce. four days in a year. ' ANNOTATIONS AND REFLECTIONS. As Jephthah was a chosen... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 714 pàgines
...to 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 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah four days in a year.'' I set the whole passage before the reader that he may the better judge... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pàgines
...returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed : — And il »a» a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four (lays in a year. Judges xi. 30 — 40. 516. [Judges xi. 40.] Thanek, to... | |
 | David Jennings - 1823 - 654 pàgines
...vowed to give the " tenth of all his substance unto the Lord," Gen. xxviii, 22. Mlily. We read, that it was a " custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah," Judg. xi, 39, 40. Now the Hebrew word pn chok, which we render custom, signifies a statute... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pàgines
...In addition to all this, observe the language in which the commemoration of the event is mentioned: "It was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year." If she was dead, there was scarcely any adequate reason... | |
 | Sophocles - 1833 - 480 pàgines
...natural feeling. We find an equally pure illustration of the same sentiment in the case of Jephtha's daughter, who went " and bewailed her virginity upon...daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of .lephtha the Gileadite four days in a year." Judges xi. and by a fate far the most wretched, before... | |
 | George Holden - 1834 - 842 pàgines
...fully accomplished her father's vow. This is farther confirmed by what follows, that it became, " the custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament," rather as in the margin " to talk with," or " to comfort the daughter of Jephthah," v. 40. She was... | |
 | 1861 - 462 pàgines
...unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which she had vowed : and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year." — not to lament her death, but her seclusion from society,... | |
 | Church of England - 1849 - 1236 pàgines
...unto her father, who did with her accordinp to his vow which he liad vowed: and she knew no man. And re and understand, Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. MARCH 22. ¿Horning, JUDGES XII. \ ND the men of Ephraim... | |
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And he sent her away for two months : and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. 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... 
