Judges 11:37 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Bewail my virginity - To become a wife and a mother was the end of existence to an Israelite maiden. The premature death of Jephthah’s daughter was about to frustrate this end.

Judges 11:37

37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go upf and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.