jephthah in a sentence

• Relying on the might of God, Jephthah challenges the Ammonites.
• Jephthah tears his clothes and cries, " Alas, my daughter!
• His oratorio " Jephthah " was first performed in 1757.
• Jephthah is driven out by his half-brothers.
• Jephthah goes to war against the Ephraimites, who refuse to acknowledge him.
• Jephthah became the leader in resisting these incursions.
• The Copenhagen Gallery has his painting " Jephthah's Daughter ".
• The victorious Jephthah is met on his return by his daughter, his only child.
• The church cemetery is associated to a myth similar to the Bible story of Jephthah.
• Much to Jephthah's dismay, his only daughter greeted him upon his triumphant return.
• It's difficult to see jephthah in a sentence .
• The story of Jephthah is found in the Old Testament Book of Judges, chapters 11 12.
• And so Jephthah " did with her according to his vow that he had made " ( ).
• The story of Jephthah's daughter is also sometimes compared to that of Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia.
• Another possible instance of human sacrifice mentioned in the Bible is the sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter in Judges 11.
• It includes a lament about the symbolic human sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter, with the daughter being the singer.
• Jephthah vows to sacrifice to God whatsoever comes to greet him at the door when he returns home if he is victorious.
• On behalf of Israel as a whole and in reliance on the might of God the Judge, Jephthah challenges the Ammonites.
• Later, Jephthah was forced to fight against the Ephraimites, who refused to aid him in his struggle against the Ammonites.
• In that version, the judge was Jephthah, also played by Waxman, but he was meaner and his court was a scary place.
• Israel Finkelstein has suggested that the story of Jephthah's vow may have been added into the story as late as the Hellenistic period.