Judges 11:34
Good News Translation
When Jephthah went back home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him, dancing and playing the tambourine. She was his only child.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah; and there was his daughter coming out to meet him with timbrels and with dancing. She was his only child; he had no son or daughter except her.

Contemporary English Version
When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, the first one to meet him was his daughter. She was playing a tambourine and dancing to celebrate his victory, and she was his only child.

New American Bible
When Jephthah returned to his house in Mizpah, it was his daughter who came out to meet him, with tambourine-playing and dancing. She was his only child: he had neither son nor daughter besides her.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Jephte returned into Maspha, to his house, his only daughter met him with timbrels and with dances: for he had no other children.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when Jephte returned into Maspha, to his house, his only daughter met him with timbrels and with dances: for he had no other children.

Mizpeh

Judges 11:11 Jephte therefore went with the princes of Galaad, and all the people made him their prince. And Jephte spoke all his words before the Lord in Maspha.

Judges 10:17 And the children of Ammon shouting together, pitched their tents in Galaad: against whom the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and camped in Maspha.

his daughter

Judges 5:1 In that day Debbora and Barac, son of Abinoem, sung, and said:

Exodus 15:20 So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.

1 Samuel 18:6,7 Now when David returned, after he slew the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels of joy, and cornets. . . .

Psalm 68:25 Princes went before joined with singers, in the midst of young damsels playing on timbrels.

Psalm 148:11,12 Kings of the earth and all people: princes and all judges of the earth: . . .

Psalm 150:4 Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs.

Jeremiah 31:4,13 And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. . . .

Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.

Luke 7:12 And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her.

Luke 8:42 For he had an only daughter, almost twelve years old, and she was dying. And it happened as he went that he was thronged by the multitudes.

Luke 9:38 And behold a man among the crowd cried out, saying: Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son, because he is my only one.

Context
Jephthah's Tragic Vow
33And he smote them from Aroer till you come to Mennith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel, which is set with vineyards, with a very great slaughter: and the children of Ammon were humbled by the children of Israel. 34And when Jephte returned into Maspha, to his house, his only daughter met him with timbrels and with dances: for he had no other children.35And when he saw her, he rent his garments, and said: Alas! my daughter, thou hast deceived me, and thou thyself art deceived: for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can do no other thing.…
Cross References
Exodus 15:20
So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.

Judges 10:17
And the children of Ammon shouting together, pitched their tents in Galaad: against whom the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and camped in Maspha.

Judges 11:11
Jephte therefore went with the princes of Galaad, and all the people made him their prince. And Jephte spoke all his words before the Lord in Maspha.

Judges 21:21
And when you shall see the daughters of Silo come out, as the custom is, to dance, come ye on a sudden out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife among them, and go into the land of Benjamin.

1 Samuel 18:6
Now when David returned, after he slew the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels of joy, and cornets.

2 Samuel 6:14
And David danced with all his might before the Lord: and David was girded with a linen ephod.

Psalm 68:25
Princes went before joined with singers, in the midst of young damsels playing on timbrels.

Jeremiah 31:4
And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

Judges 11:33
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