That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament ... х lªtanowt (H8567)] - to rehearse (Judges 11:11) her doings; i:e., to praise her for the religions life she led. It might be that this anniversary was observed only during the lifetime of Jephthah's daughter, and chiefly by the women of the Gileadite district who were acquainted with her, or cognizant of the circumstances connected with her pious self-sacrifice. This view of Jephthah's vow, which has occasioned perplexity in every subsequent age of the Church, seems in perfect accordance with Scripture, and possesses the merit of rescuing from the reproach of a dark and malignant superstition the character of a judge in Israel, whom the Spirit of God has enrolled among the worthies of the ancient congregation.