 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...The daughters of Moreen mourned her one day in the year, when the dark winds of autumn returned.] And it was a custom in Israel, that " the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jcphthah, four days in the year." Judges, xi. 39- Quoted by Macpherson. In transferring... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 714 pages
...to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed, and she knew no man : And it was a custom in Israel that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah four days in a year.'' I set the whole passage before the reader that... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed : — And il »a» a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four (lays in a year. Judges xi. 30 — 40. 516. [Judges... | |
 | Sophocles - 1823 - 266 pages
...daughter ( who went " and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains." Her example was even admired; for " it was a custom in Israel, That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephtha the Gileadite four days in a year." Judges xi. i Niobe, who was changed... | |
 | David Jennings - 1823 - 654 pages
...vowed to give the " tenth of all his substance unto the Lord," Gen. xxviii, 22. Mlily. We read, that it was a " custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah," Judg. xi, 39, 40. Now the Hebrew word pn chok, which we render custom,... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...In addition to all this, observe the language in which the commemoration of the event is mentioned: "It was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year." If she was dead, there was scarcely... | |
 | Sophocles - 1833 - 480 pages
...daughter, who went " and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains." Her example was even admired ; for " it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of .lephtha the Gileadite four days in a year." Judges xi. and by a fate far the... | |
 | Matthew James Chapman - 1834 - 138 pages
...shall surely be the Lord's, and I will offer it up i'or a burnt-offering." He further states, that " it was a custom in Israel that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephtha the Gileadite, four days in a year." Josephus relates the history in... | |
 | Sophocles - 1837 - 324 pages
...daughter, who went " and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains." Her example was even admired ; for " it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephtha the Gileadite four days in a year." Judges xi. ter of Tantalus. Her,... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...knew no man. And it was a 4 custom in Israel, Huit the daughters of Israel went * yearly 6 to lament hariots, and upon his IS horsemen. And the Egyptians shall kn О And the men of Ephraim ' gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah,... | |
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And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter... 
