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Hakim-hakim 11:35
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Demi dilihatnya dia, dikoyakkannyalah bajunya, sambil berkata: "Ah, anakku, engkau membuat hatiku hancur luluh dan engkaulah yang mencelakakan aku; aku telah membuka mulutku bernazar kepada TUHAN, dan tidak dapat aku mundur."
Serta terlihatlah ia akan dia, maka dikoyakkannya pakaiannya sendiri, sambil katanya: Wai anakku! engkau menundukkan daku sampai ke bumi, engkau mengharukan daku amat sangat, karena aku telah membukakan mulutku kepada Tuhan, maka tiada boleh aku mungkir janji.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
rent his clothes: Genesis 37:29, Genesis 37:30, Genesis 37:34, Genesis 37:35, Genesis 42:36-38, 2 Samuel 13:30, 2 Samuel 13:31, 2 Samuel 18:33, Job 1:20
have opened: Leviticus 27:28, Leviticus 27:29, Numbers 30:2-5, Psalms 15:4, Ecclesiastes 5:2-6
I cannot: Judges 21:1-7, 1 Samuel 14:44, 1 Samuel 14:45, Matthew 14:7-9, Acts 23:14
Reciprocal: Genesis 14:22 - unto Numbers 14:6 - rent their clothes Deuteronomy 23:23 - That which Judges 21:6 - repented them Judges 21:18 - sworn 2 Samuel 3:31 - Rend Psalms 66:14 - uttered Proverbs 18:7 - his lips
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it came to pass, when he saw her,.... 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
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 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.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Jephthah was right in not being deterred from keeping his vow by the loss and sorrow to himself (compare the marginal references), just as Abraham was right in not withholding his son, his only son, from God, when commanded to offer him up as a burnt-offering. But Jephthah was wholly wrong in that conception of the character of God which led to his making the rash vow. And he would have done right not to slay his child, though the guilt of making and of breaking such a vow would have remained. Josephus well characterizes the sacrifice as “neither sanctioned by the Mosaic law, nor acceptable to God.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Judges 11:35. Thou hast brought me very low — He was greatly distressed to think that his daughter, who was his only child, should be, in consequence of his vow, prevented from continuing his family in Israel; for it is evident that he had not any other child, for besides her, says the text, he had neither son nor daughter, Judges 11:34. He might, therefore, well be grieved that thus his family was to become extinct in Israel.