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Jephthah's Daughter
Contributed by
calista
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Wednesday, 31st December 2003 @ 02:23:30 AM in AEST
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Jephthah's Daughter
December 29, 2003
Of Israel, there was Jephthah, a judge.
He held peace and never a grudge.
To his daughter, he devoted his love,
And prayed for her happiness, to God above.
Behind the enemy line of the King of Ammonites,
He found himself one day, having to fight.
He vowed to God, that if he should live,
The first person he'd meet, he would give.
In a holy sacrifice, to thanks for sparing his life.
Jephthah defeated the Ammonites,
And danced his way home through the nights.
When he reached his home, what he saw hurt him more,
But he could not go against what he swore.
So he told his daughter, who danced at his feet,
Of how he vowed to sacrifice the first he should meet.
She wept, but told her father to keep his vow,
And to let her join friends in the mountains of Gilead, to grieve now.
She would spend her last nights crying for she was a maiden, with no child borne.
And every year after, the maidens of Israel went to the mountain to mourn.
The fate of Jephthah's daughter would bring forth a tear,
When the four days had come, to remember her, each year.
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Re: Jephthah's Daughter
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by venkat on
Wednesday, 31st December 2003 @ 04:19:53 AM AEST
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| well written.. good read. venkat |
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Re: Jephthah's Daughter
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by RICHARD_CAMPBELL on
Wednesday, 31st December 2003 @ 06:20:09 PM AEST
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Hi calista,this is very good,am sorry you don't believe.
keep up the good work.rc |
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