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Jephthah

Judge and deliverer of Israel from the Book of Judges (tribe of Gilead (Manasseh)). A Gileadite judge whose story includes a rash vow before battle with the Ammonites that the text says cost him his daughter's future.

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Judge and deliverer of Israel from the Book of Judges (tribe of Gilead (Manasseh)). A Gileadite judge whose story includes a rash vow before battle with the Ammonites that the text says cost him his daughter's future.

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This article records a figure from the Hebrew Bible's narrative genealogy of Israel, as told across the Torah and the Former Prophets. It follows the text's own presentation of events rather than adjudicating questions of historicity, which remain debated among biblical scholars and archaeologists.

Sources

  1. The Oxford Bible Commentary (scholarly)
  2. Book of Judges (primary text)

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