Judges 11:40 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

There is no allusion extant elsewhere to this annual lamentation of the untimely fate of Jephthah’s daughter. But the poetical turn of the narrative suggests that it may be taken from some ancient song (compare the marginal note 4).

Judges 11:40

40 That the daughters of Israel went yearlyh to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.