She chose the mountains as a solitary place, and therefore fittest both for lamentations, and for her preparation for her approaching calamity. Bewail my virginity; that I shall die childless, which was esteemed both a curse and a disgrace for the Israelites, Genesis 30:23 1 Samuel 1:6 7 Isa 4:1, because such were excluded from that great privilege of increasing the holy seed, and contributing to the birth of the Messiah, who was to be born of an Israelitish woman.
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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.