Judges 11:38
Read Judges 11:38 Using Other Translations
What does Judges 11:38 mean?
And he said, go
He granted her request at once:
and he sent her away for two months;
as she desired:
and she went with her companions, and bewailed her
virginity upon the
mountains;
for the space of two months: the Jewish commentators make mention
of an allegorical exposition of a writer F9 of
theirs, who by mountains understands the sanhedrim, to whom she
proposed to go, who perhaps might find a way for the loosing of
the vow; but it is a question whether there was such a court then
in Israel; and had there been one, and either she or her father
had applied to it, in this case the priests would have pointed
out what was to be done, and especially if the vow had any regard
to the sacrifice of his daughter; and even to her virginity,
which he had no power to oblige her to; but the literal sense is
no doubt to be followed.
F9 Tanchuma.
