Judges 11:30,31
And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you shall without fail deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,
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Of Vows. The Miserable Entanglements Caused by Vowing Rashly.
... All then I mean here is, that your vows should be adapted to the measure ... Thus Jephthah
suffered for his folly, when with precipitate fervour he made a rash vow ...
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Scriptural Uses of the General Words for Prayer
... I pay my vows; and a foolish son is a father's shame: unhallowed are vows from a ...
upon his head" is strictly not a prayer but such a vow as Jephthah also vowed ...
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Perpetual Covenants
... Jephthah rent his clothes, and almost broke his heart; and, no doubt, everybody ... of
consecration, but when the temptation comes they do not stand to their vows. ...
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After the Whole People had Been Freed from all Distress...
... vow and promise He had forbidden the sacrifice, many also who were subsequent to
Jephthah, in the expectation that God would not receive their vows, would have ...
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Covenanting Confers Obligation.
... What was uttered by Jephthah regarding a vow which was unlawful, must have been
employed by the fearers of God in reference to vows of which He approved,""I ...
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The Third Commandment
... I will pay thee my vows which my lips have uttered when I was in trouble ... Jephthah's
vow was rash and unlawful; he vowed to the Lord to sacrifice that to him ...
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The Levites Ought to be Utterly Free from all Earthly Desires. ...
... like the firstfruits and the firstlings which belong to the Lord, since the payment
of vows and redemption ... [363] And what shall I say of Jephthah, [364] who ...
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Against Rash and Vain Swearing.
... which is holy (or, to swallow a sacred obligation), and after vows to make ... what sorrow,
what regret and repentance, did the unadvised vow of Jephthah throw him ...
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That the Employing Of, and Associating with the Malignant Party ...
... which we deliberately and sincerely passed upon ourselves, in the days of our vows
to God ... Barak's business, as that of Jephthah and Gideon, was done by no great ...
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