Judges 11:40 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

to lament. to rehearse with, as in Judges 5:11. to celebrate [her dedication] in praises.

four days in. year. Thus annually her friends "went", evidently to Jephthah's daughter, to rehearse with her this great event of her life: not of her death.

Judges 11:40

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