SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:35
Y cuando él la vio, rompió sus vestidos diciendo: ¡Ay, hija mía! de verdad me has abatido, y tú eres de los que me afligen; porque yo he abierto mi boca al SEÑOR, y no podré retractarme.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 35. And it came to pass, when he saw her , etc.] She being the first person that presented to his view, as she was at the head of the virgins with their timbrels and dances: that he rent his clothes ; as was the usual manner, when anything calamitous and distressing happened; (see Genesis 37:34 Job 1:20) and said, alas, my daughter, thou hast brought me very low ; damped his spirits, sunk him very low, so that he was ready to drop into the earth, as we say; he that was now returning in triumph, amidst the acclamations of the people, in the height of his glory, and extolled to the skies, and perhaps elated in his own mind; on a sudden, at the sight of his daughter, was so depressed in his spirits, that he could not bear up; but was ready to sink and die away, all his honour being as it were laid in the dust, and nothing to him: and thou art one of them that trouble me : or among his troublers, and the greatest he ever met with; he had been in trouble from his brethren, when they drove him from his father’s house, and he had had trouble with the children of Ammon to subdue them; but this was the greatest trouble of all, that his daughter should be the first that should meet him; of whom, according to his vow, he was to be deprived, and so all his future comforts, hopes, and expectations from her gone; and therefore ranks her among, and at the head of, his troublers: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord ; in a vow; not only had purposed it in his heart, but had expressed it with his lips: and I cannot go back ; or retract it; looking upon himself under an indispensable obligation to perform it; of which, be it as it may, he seems to have had mistaken notions and apprehensions; for if his vow was to sacrifice her, as some think, he was not obliged to do it, since it was contrary to the law of God, and abominable in his sight; and besides, what was vowed to be the Lord’s, or devoted to him, might be redeemed according to the law, a female for thirty pieces of silver, ( Leviticus 27:2-4) and if the vow was to separate his daughter from the company of men, and oblige her never to marry, such a power as this parents had not allowed them over their children, according to the laws of God or of men, in the Jewish nation; and therefore, be it which it will, what he had to do was to repent of this rash vow, and humble himself before God for making it, and not add sin to sin by performing it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 29-40 - Several important lessons are to be learned from Jephthah's vow. 1 There may be remainders of distrust and doubting, even in the hearts of true and great believers. 2. Our vows to God should not be as purchase of the favour we desire, but to express gratitude to him. 3 We need to be very well-advised in making vows, lest we entangl ourselves. 4. What we have solemnly vowed to God, we must perform, in it be possible and lawful, though it be difficult and grievous to us 5. It well becomes children, obediently and cheerfully to submit to their parents in the Lord. It is hard to say what Jephthah did in performance of his vow; but it is thought that he did not offer his daughter as a burnt-offering. Such a sacrifice would have been a abomination to the Lord; it is supposed she was obliged to remai unmarried, and apart from her family. Concerning this and some othe such passages in the sacred history, about which learned men ar divided and in doubt, we need not perplex ourselves; what is necessar to our salvation, thanks be to God, is plain enough. If the reade recollects the promise of Christ concerning the teaching of the Holy Spirit, and places himself under this heavenly Teacher, the Holy Ghos will guide to all truth in every passage, so far as it is needful to be understood __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 כראותו 7200 אותה 853 ויקרע 7167 את 853 בגדיו 899 ויאמר 559 אהה 162 בתי 1323 הכרע 3766 הכרעתני 3766 ואת 859 היית 1961 בעכרי 5916 ואנכי 595 פציתי 6475 פי 6310 אל 413 יהוה 3068 ולא 3808 אוכל 3201 לשׁוב׃ 7725
