Heb 11:32-40 The Faith of Jephthah The faith of the bandit judge Faith to fight battles
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The events of Jephthah found in Judges 11-12:7
The events of Jephthah found in Judges 11-12:7
Just as it has been with all of the previous judges mention Jephthah is also a man God used in spite of himself.
Discuss overview through Judges 11:1-28
Judges 11:1–28 (NASB95)
Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant warrior, but he was the son of a harlot
Gilead was the father of Jephthah whose wife bore him sons who
drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”
Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows gathered themselves about Jephthah, and they went out with him
Jephthah had built a reputation as a warrior
Ammon fought against Israel
elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah
they said to him, “Come and be our chief (Captain) that we may fight against the sons of Ammon.”
Jephthah said “Did you not hate me and drive me from my father’s house? So why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?”
elders said, “For this reason we have now returned to you, that you may go with us and fight with the sons of Ammon and become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
Jephthah said, “If you take me back to fight against the sons of Ammon and the Lord gives them up to me, will I become your head (Ruler)?”
elders said, “The Lord is witness between us; surely we will do as you have said.”
Jephthah was made head and chief over them;
Jephthah sends messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, “What is between you and me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”
Ammon ‘s king said, “Because Israel took away my land”
Jephthah sent messengers again and said, ‘Israel did not take away the land
He gives a history lesson and then says to them, ‘Since now the Lord, the God of Israel, drove out the Amorites from before His people Israel, are you then to possess it? ‘Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess?
Oh and, “whatever the Lord our God has driven out before us, we will possess it.”
Jephthah added, ‘I therefore have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by making war against me; may the Lord, the Judge, judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.’
But the king of the sons of Ammon disregarded the message which Jephthah sent him.
Faith during Warfare Judges 11:29-40
Are you Bargaining with God
Vs. 29 The Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah
passes through the lands
Vs. 30-31 The unnecessary vow - Let’s make a deal
burnt offering?
Bred up as he had been, beyond the Jordan, where the Israelitish tribes, far from the tabernacle, were looser in their religious sentiments, and living latterly on the borders of a heathen country where such sacrifices were common, it is not improbable that he may have been so ignorant as to imagine that a similar immolation would be acceptable to God. His mind, engrossed with the prospect of a contest, on the issue of which the fate of his country depended, might, through the influence of superstition, consider the dedication of the object dearest to him the most likely to ensure success.
“When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courts?
Faith to fight the Battles in your life
Vs. 32-33 The LORD gave them into his hand
Sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel.
Speaking of our victory in Christ Paul Writes,
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
Then he asks the final question in Rom. 8:35
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
and he then says this beautiful verse in Romans 8:37
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
Vs 34 (oh yes, the vow)…
What did he expect come out of his door?
An animal or a person?
Obviously not his daughter.
Notice She was his one and only Child
The last of the linage of Jephthah
The Bible Knowledge Commentary 11:34–40
His statement, I have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break, may reflect his ignorance of the legal option to redeem (with silver) persons who were thus dedicated (cf. Lev. 27:1–8)
Vs. 35 (Oh yes, it’s her fault not his)
The Blame Game has been going on since Adam and Eve in the Garden
Vs. 36 Do not break your vow to God
“When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, and the Lord your God will surely require it of you. “However, if you refrain from vowing, it would not be sin in you. “You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God, what you have promised.
“But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil.
Should we take a vow?
We should take vows seriously and have every intention of fulfilling them.
Wedding Vow
Military Service Vow
Police Service Vow
etc.
Vs. 37-38 period of morning for loss
Vs. 39-40 He did it. but did what?
did to her according to the vow
He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
There is only one way to please God. Only one. Faith. Faith in his grace; faith in his lovingkindness toward you.
● Eph 2:8–9. Not of works … not of your sacrifices!
● We don’t have to negotiate with God.
● There is only one deal God will ever make: His righteousness for your absolute surrender.
The result?
She had no relations with a man
It became a custom
The Lexham Bible Dictionary (Jephthah’s Vow)
Consenting to her plight, she asks only for two months to “mourn her virginity on the mountains” before the sacrifice. Jephthah’s daughter may have been “sacrificed” to a life of celibacy. If she was actually offered as a burned sacrifice, this becomes the solitary instance of Israelite human sacrifice, forbidden by Deuteronomic law (Deut 12:29–31).
“When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?’ “You shall not behave thus toward the Lord your God, for every abominable act which the Lord hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
Short lived and appears to only have been done through out her lifetime as this custom is found no where else in scripture.
Judges Chapter 11
the Ammonites, who made their children pass through the fire to Moloch, and it cannot surprise us that a man brought up as Jephthah was, and leading the life of a freebooter at the head of a band of Syrian outlaws, should have the common Syrian notion of the efficacy of human sacrifices in great emergencies. His language, indeed, about Jehovah and Chemosh