Judges 11:40 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Went yearly, to a place appointed for their meeting to this end, possibly to the place where she was sacrificed. To lament the daughter of Jephthah; to express their sorrow for her loss, according to thee manner. Or, to discourse of (so the Hebrew lamed is sometimes used) the daughter of Jephthah, to celebrate her praises, who had so willingly yielded up herself for a sacrifice.

Judges 11:40

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